Iran Tested Nuclear Weapon?

jimkim · 11-07-2009, 06:52 AM

Is this article credible?

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Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles

The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked 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known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the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.
Documentation referring to experiments testing a two-point detonation design are part of the evidence of nuclear weaponisation gathered by the IAEA and presented to Iran for its response.

nathangdad · 11-07-2009, 07:54 AM

they have not tested a nuclear weapon in the sense of exploding one.

However, nuclear technology is widely available and there are many scientists in the world available for hire to make a nuclear bomb.

Building all the components then testing them both in a computer simulation and in the real world is pretty much akin to actually exploding the finished product. It would not be a big step to assemble all the components if you had them available.

It is my opinion a nuclear Iran is not such a threat as the government would like us to believe. After all, we have very advanced "shoot down"
technology for any missile.

I believe the government would like us to be worried about a nuclear Iran
to take the voter's thoughts off the much greater problem of failed policies in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The creation of greater radical Islamic fundamentalism for which our government is a major, if unintended,
promoter in the middle east and then throughout the world via the internet is a real problem.

11-07-2009, 07:54 AM	#2
nathangdad Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 5,781	Well, they have not tested a nuclear weapon in the sense of exploding one. However, nuclear technology is widely available and there are many scientists in the world available for hire to make a nuclear bomb. Building all the components then testing them both in a computer simulation and in the real world is pretty much akin to actually exploding the finished product. It would not be a big step to assemble all the components if you had them available. It is my opinion a nuclear Iran is not such a threat as the government would like us to believe. After all, we have very advanced "shoot down" technology for any missile. I believe the government would like us to be worried about a nuclear Iran to take the voter's thoughts off the much greater problem of failed policies in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The creation of greater radical Islamic fundamentalism for which our government is a major, if unintended, promoter in the middle east and then throughout the world via the internet is a real problem.