LONDON: The UN nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence that it has experimented with highly advanced nuclear warhead designs, a British newspaper reported Friday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes Iranian scientists may have tested components of the sophisticated technology, known as a two-point implosion device, the Guardian reported.

This technology whose existence is secret in the United States and Britain would allow for the production of smaller and simpler warheads and reduce the diameter of a warhead and make it easier to put on a missile, it said.

The Guardian cited previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the IAEA, drawn in part from reports submitted by western intelligence agencies, and presented to Iran for response.

An unnamed European advisor on nuclear issues told the newspaper: It is breathtaking that Iran could be working on this sort of material.

Western powers have long feared that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, something it denies.

Iran and western powers are currently engaged in talks over how to procure nuclear fuel for an Iranian research reactor.

Under a UN-brokered proposal Iran would send its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for conversion into fuel for the reactor. Iran says it would rather buy the fuel directly.
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PEACE

Yeah sure, yet they join the cluster munitions treaty rendering their massive stocks of short and medium range missiles pretty vastly less effective since they are too inaccurate to use their single warheads to any effect. The United States refused to sign the treaty. Iran also opposes chemical and biological weapons on religious and moral grounds. Nukes my ass.


"He lives in a world where concept is reality..."

why are you europeans complaining about them for first disarm both of them. Not just one of them from nukes which verry much your government is trying to do pomi

This allegations originate from the US's claim that it has been given a laptop supposedly used by Iranian scientists that contains this sort of information... but as usual they refuse to provide any evidence, they refuse to give the IAEA the laptop, they also refuse to say where this alleged laptop came from.


In short this is the usual bull**** they come up with.. nothing new. Iran has refused to even talk about this issue, because it justifiably says that if its going to have to do this every time some one says they have something..