The Nuclear Story

So I'm not exactly certain what the "nuclear story" truly is, but I did find a couple of sources. I would call them biased, but I'm still not even sure how.

The first is from Fox News, called "Republicans Push Obama to 'Pull the Trigger' on Iran." Sounds awful, right? Here are some "facts" I managed to pull from the article:

1) Officials have admitted that Iran is roughly a year away from having nuclear weapons.
2) Iran keeps saying that it is using enriched uranium for power purposes, not for weapons.
3) Obama obviously organized a 47-country summit to address nuclear power -- and didn't bother to invite Iran.
4) Obama's plan promises that we will not use nuclear weapons against a country without them.
5) Iran and North Korea were excluded from the previous promise because they have been uncooperating.

In another article published before the summit, I found these facts:
1) We passed Resolution 1887 last fall. No idea what that is.
2) Apparently the challenge, according to the article (also published by Fox News, titled "Nuclear Security Summit Communique and Work Plan"), is to find out what to do with the 2000 tons of plutonium and enriched uranium.
3) I didn't really understand much else...

Further research led me naturally to what Obama and others were saying:
1) McCain says that we have not been tough enough on Iran, that we've been pointing a loaded gun at them, but failing to "pull the trigger."
2) Obama says that "Words have to mean something. There have to be some consequences."
3) Senator Jon Kyl says that the summit was a disappointment.
4) Obama also brought up the issue of Al Qaeda finding the weapons and using them.

I'm not sure what all of this means, but it sure is hard for those of us who don't know all about uranium and nuclear energy to understand everything that's going on. Hopefully some source will provide unbiased, layman's information about all of this...

Melanie