He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

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Mr. Panetta and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates have argued that a military strike would at best delay Iran's nuclear development for a few years.

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Centrica is explicit that there will be an indeterminate delay to the building of new nuclear power plants following the Fukushima disaster in Japan.

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And China, which is building more than twice as many new reactors as Russia, the next fastest-growing nuclear power adopter, could be forced to delay its development, Mr. Carter said.

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