What's up with Iran?
Is the Bush administration right when it claims that Iran's recently discovered nuclear activities are a prelude to an Iranian nuclear bomb? The answer is maybe. Iran's centrifuge capacities could be used to produce fuel for its new nuclear power plant, or to enrich uranium for a bomb--or maybe both. Get all the details on Iran's nuclear capabilities from the Bulletin's latest reports:
1. Keep your enemy closer The best way to know the full extent of Iran's nuclear doings is to offer it help.
By Jack Boureston and Charles D. Ferguson November/December 2005 pp. 25, 76 (vol. 61, no. 6) © 2005 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=nd05boureston
2. Engage or enrage
Review of The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies, by Dilip Hiro. Nation Books, 418 pages, 2005, $16.95; and Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Atom Bomb, by Al J. Venter. Casemate Publishers, 451 pages, 2005, $29.95.
By Walter C. Uhler September/October 2005 pp. 65-67 (vol. 61, no. 05) © 2005 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so05uhler
3.Iran: Countdown to showdown The United States wanted the Security Council to sanction Iran, but the European Union preferred to make a deal. Now Iran appears to have backed out of their agreement . . .
By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein November/December 2004 pp. 67-72 (vol. 60, no. 6) © 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=nd04albright_037
4. Schooling Iran's atom squad
Iran has taken care to build its nuclear program around indigenous capabilities, including new universities where a new generation of science students is training.
By Jack Boureston and Charles D. Ferguson May/June 2004 pp. 31-35 (vol. 60, no. 03) © 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj04boureston
5.The centrifuge connection
After Iran's first story of how it acquired uranium enrichment technology was rejected, evidence of a more complex procurement network began to emerge.
By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March/April 2004 pp. 61-66 (vol. 60, no. 02) © 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=ma04albright
6. Iran, player or rogue?
The deadline is now. Will Iran come clean about its nuclear doings?
By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September/October 2003 pp. 52-58 (vol. 59, no. 05) © 2003 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so03albright
7. Iran: Furor over fuel
By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein May/June 2003 pp. 12-15 (vol. 59, no. 03) © 2003 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj03albright