Mediocrates
11-06-2009, 06:30 AM
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=46324
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/iran-tested-nuclear-warhead-design
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126391.html
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran) to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.
The sophisticated technology, once mastered, allows for the production of smaller and simpler warheads than older models. It reduces the diameter of a warhead and makes it easier to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/iran-tested-nuclear-warhead-design
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126391.html
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran) to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.
The sophisticated technology, once mastered, allows for the production of smaller and simpler warheads than older models. It reduces the diameter of a warhead and makes it easier to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.