(07-16-2018 08:33 AM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-iran-israel-nuclear-weapons-20180715-story.html#

Story on Israel's raid of Iran's archive on their nuclear activities prior to 2003 when they ew details from a trove of Iranian nuclear documents stolen by Israeli spies early this year show that Tehran obtained explicit weapons-design information from a foreign source and was on the cusp of mastering key bombmaking technologies when the research was ordered halted 15 years ago.

"Iran's ambitious, highly secretive effort to build nuclear weapons included extensive research in making uranium metal as well as advanced testing of equipment used to generate neutrons to start a nuclear chain reaction, the documents show.



While Iranian officials halted much of the work in 2003, internal memos show senior scientists making extensive plans to continue several projects in secret, hidden within existing military research programs.

"The work would be divided in two: covert (secret structure and goals) and overt," an Iranian scientist writes in one memo, part of a 100,000-document archive seized in a daring raid on a storage facility in Tehran by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in January.stopped after W.'s invasion of Iraq...."