(New York Times) Richard Bernstein - Iran has admitted that it conducted small-scale experiments to create plutonium, one of the pathways to building nuclear weapons, for five years beyond the date when it previously insisted it had ended all such work. The deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Pierre Goldschmidt, is expected to tell the agency's board Thursday that Iran made the admissions after being confronted with the result of laboratory tests conducted on samples collected from an Iranian nuclear site. Since 2003, when Iran first began admitting that it had hidden 17 years of work from the nuclear agency, it made assurances that its accounting of its activities was full. But it has repeatedly had to revise that accounting, often in the face of evidence from the agency's scientific analyses.
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