Chapter eight, Beginning of Negotiations and a Chance to Create Opportunity, discusses the performance of three working groups which were established following Paris agreement.

In the ninth chapter, New Hopes, criticizes Europeans during negotiations and also explains Iran's initiative for offering a four-stage plan for industrial-level enrichment.

In chapter ten, which is titled Distrust and Doubt focuses on international consequences of Iran's decision to launch the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF).

In chapter eleven, Changing Red Lines, the author reflects on the efforts made by the nuclear negotiating team under his lead and also explains a three-faceted strategy.

However, after an interview with Hassan Rouhani by Mehrnameh magazine in May 2012, the book hit the headlines not only in domestic print media, but also in their counterparts outside the country, including the BBC Persian TV, and many critiques were written about it.

National Security and Nuclear Diplomacy was first published by the Expediency Council's Center for Strategic Research in 999 pages in fall of 2011, but was introduced and distributed in April 2012.