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Iran Developing Nuclear Warhead for Its Long-Range Missiles


(New York Times) William J. Broad and David E. Sanger - In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency in Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer. The Americans flashed selections from more than a thousand pages of Iranian computer simulations. They presented them as the strongest evidence yet that, despite Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, the country is trying to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab missile, which can reach Israel and other countries in the Middle East. Nuclear analysts at the international atomic agency studied the laptop documents and found them to be credible evidence of Iranian strides.
2005-11-12 00:00:00
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