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Iran hands over blueprints for nuclear warhead
Iran has given the UN nuclear agency blueprints (they don’t have) showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads (they’re not trying to build) .
The move is seen as an apparent concession meant to stave off the threat of new UN sanctions. But diplomats said Tehran has failed to meet other requests made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its attempts to end nearly two decades of nuclear secrecy.
The agency has been seeking possession of the blueprints since 2005, when it stumbled upon them among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities.
Iran maintains it was given the papers without asking for them during its black market purchases of nuclear equipment through the AQ Khan network. Khan who is the father of the Pakistani nuclear program sold Iran everything it would need to build a bomb, and threw in blueprints for the warhead design for free.
AQ Khan perfected the technique of using thousands of small centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. It’s considerably cheaper and much easier to conceal than the large plutonium reactors typically used.
His centrifuge design was a major breakthrough in nuclear science, so Khan formed a worldwide one-stop shop for nuclear weapons technology. The Chinese meanwhile had invented an excellent warhead that would be a perfect delivery system for Khan’s bomb.
So Khan agreed to swap his bomb design in return for the Chinese warhead design. This gave Khan the final piece for his thriving nuclear proliferation ring. He could now sell a complete nuclear weapons program from the design and construction, all the way to the weapon delivery to any country willing to pay.
How much you might ask?? What does a complete nuclear weapons program cost? Khan reportedly charged $200 million for the complete do-it-yourself nuke program.
Even in the face of everything we know, Iran still insists their only interest in nuclear technology is for energy purposes. Furthermore, they have never had an interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, because they are only interested in peace.
Yeah, right.
-Chris Jones
