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No surprise: Iran 'closer to nuclear weapons than we thought'
« on: October 27, 2018, 02:24:21 pm »
American Thinker
Rick Moran
Oct. 27, 2018

A report issued by top international security experts says that Iran was much closer to developing a workable nuclear bomb than anyone previously imagined.

The paper, authored by, among others, Institute for Science and International Security director David Albright, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) former Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen, concluded that “the information highlights dual-use, controlled equipment used at the site, such as a flash x-ray system utilizing a Marx generator and a variety of neutron measurement equipment, with electronics, designed to monitor high speed, explosively driven tests of a neutron source commonly used in a nuclear weapon."

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