Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead: report

reuteurs ^ | 11/5/09 | reutuers

[Flavius]

The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition.

[Flavius]

Preserve regime, deter attack 101

[PGR88]

WHAAAT nuclear device? That was just Lamb Shaslik burning!

[penelopesire]

El Baradie should have been fired and imprisoned years ago.

[cranked]

There has long been suspicion that Iran was working on a delivery system. To be quite honest, one has to wonder:

- just how long Iran has been working on such?

- was this in improvised North Korean version or an indigenous Iran design?

- how long has the IAEA known of this and not said/reported anything?

[mojito]

"James Acton, a British nuclear weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "It's remarkable that, before perfecting step one, they are going straight to step four or five ... To start with more sophisticated designs speaks of level of technical ambition that is surprising."

"Another western specialist with extensive knowledge of the Iranian programme said: "It raises the question of who supplied this to them. Did AQ Khan [a Pakistani scientist who confessed in 2004 to running a nuclear smuggling ring] have access to this, or is it another player?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/iran-tested-nuclear-warhead-design

[mojito]

Live link to Guardian article referenced above:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/iran-tested-nuclear-warhead-design