But the most damaging thing about the leaks to the Post was this piece of intelligence:
Experts at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico ran the schematics [for the Shahab-3 nuclear-capable warhead] through computer simulations. They determined two things: The drawings were an effort to expand the nose cone of the Shahab-3 to carry a nuclear warhead, and the modification plans, if executed, would not work.
Now, developing the intelligence and the computer capabiltities to come that conclusion cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and fifty years of nuclear weapons expertise to develop. Thanks to a dumb reporter at the Washington Post, we just gave it to the Iranians for thirty-five cents.
Dirty SOB's!!
In others words the POST told them to tweak their plans....let that sink in...
Timmerman over-reaches here. While it's valuable to know that your design won't work, that is a far cry from the WaPo giving them the plans for something that will work.