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Iran Sought Miniaturized Nuclear-Weapon Design

  • 09.11.2011
  • By Jonathan Tirone and Margaret Talev, Bloomberg
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The Iranian nuclear program tried to shrink a Pakistani design for a nuclear weapon so that it would be capable of fitting on top of one of its Shahab-3 missiles which has the range to hit Israel. According to the IAEA report, Iran worked on developing the explosives necessary to detonate a nuclear weapon while also developing a neutron generator which starts the chain reaction in a nuclear explosion.

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