Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger

From The Times

December 14, 2009
Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.
The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers [...]

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

Is this what Israel has been waiting for?
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a “two-point implosion” device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according [...]

French Minister: Iran and Israel in ‘race to confrontation’

Iran’s nuclear ambitions have started a “race to confrontation” with Israel and the world’s leading powers must break the deadlock before the Jewish state “reacts”, according to France’s foreign minister Bernard Kouchner.
Telegraph
Bernard Kouchner stressed the urgency of reaching agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme and [...]

Russia: We’ll Nuke ‘Aggressors’ First

Russia is weighing changes to its military doctrine that would allow for a “preventive” nuclear strike against its enemies — even those armed only with conventional weapons.
In an interview published in Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, said the new doctrine offers “different options to allow the use of nuclear weapons, [...]

Iran Refuses to Discuss Nuclear Program at Upcoming Talks in Geneva

Iran declared its refusal Tuesday to discuss its nuclear program — including the disclosure of a second nuclear enrichment plant — when it sits down at the negotiating table Thursday with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, Reuters reported. A top Iranian official told the news agency that his country [...]