Iran Studied Advanced Nuke Trigger, IAEA Findings
Suggest

A continuing U.N. analysis of Iran’s nuclear capabilities suggests the Middle Eastern state might have tested explosive elements of a “two-point implosion” technology that could be used in producing smaller nuclear warheads, the London Guardian reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 5).The design, which uses explosives to simultaneously compress two ends of a football-shaped fissile “pit,” [...]

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a-findings-suggest/

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