Confidential UN Report Concludes Iran Has the Know-How to Produce a Nuclear Bomb
After Pakistan’s atomic bomb designer sold plans and equipment to Iran for building an atomic bomb, years ago, one does wonder what took the UN so long to admit that Iran has the know-how…
Iran could make an atom bomb, according to UN report’s ‘secret annexe’
Iran has the know-how to produce a nuclear bomb and may already have tested a detonation system small enough to fit into the warhead of a medium-range missile, according to confidential papers.
The “secret annexe” to this year’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran summarises information submitted by intelligence agencies about the country’s work on warheads, detonators and nuclear fuel enrichment. It is based partly on evidence thought to have been smuggled out of Iran by the wife of a spy recruited by German intelligence.
The papers conclude that Iran already “has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device”, or atom bomb.
The finding goes beyond America’s public stance and may complicate its efforts at talks in Geneva to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
General James Jones, President Obama’s National Security Adviser, said yesterday: “Whether they know how to [build a bomb] or not is a matter of some conjecture. What we are watching is what is their intent — and we have been worried about that intent.”
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Ah yes. Team Kumbaya goes to work in an effort to soften things up… Gee, I didn’t see that coming!
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