Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
February 4, 2004
The following discusses a set of documents obtained by United Nations (UN) inspectors in Iraq in 1995 that may indicate an effort by Abdul Qadeer Khan shortly before the start of the 1991 Persian Gulf War to sell Iraq nuclear weapon design drawings and gas centrifuge design information, facilitate the procurement of the equipment required to build...
January 21, 2004
In his State of the Union address two years ago, President Bush shone a spotlight on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, labeling them an axis of evil and declaring that America would deny them "the materials, technology, and expertise to make and deliver weapons of mass destruction." Two years later, the Iraqi threat is gone, but Iran has moved closer...
January 12, 2004
Recent media reports suggest that rogue Pakistani scientists have been peddling nuclear secrets across the Middle East for many years. The revelation offsets recent good news from the region-Iran's acceptance of nuclear inspections and Libya's agreement to give up weapons of mass destruction. The spread of nuclear secrets in Pakistan is...
January 1, 2004
Article VI.J of the IAEA’s Statute requires the Board of Governors to submit “an annual report to the General Conference concerning the affairs of the Agency and any projects approved by the Agency”. This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2003.
January 1, 2004
This report is based on commissioned research and commentary of over 30 of the nation’s leading experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation. The research frames and sees Iran’s nuclear program as a persistent danger and catalyst for other states to acquire nuclear weapons. There nuclear programs along with Iran’s would confront the...
January 1, 2004
For some U.S. policymakers and military planners, Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor may serve as an object lesson regarding the potential benefits of preventive military action against Iran's nuclear program. Not widely appreciated is how risky and difficult the Osiraq raid was, and how the factors which ensured its success make...
December 18, 2003
Unofficial translation from Russian
On December 18, in Vienna, Iranian International Atomic Energy Agency representative Ali Akbar Salehi and IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei signed an Additional Protocol to the IAEA Safeguards Agreement pursuant to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
December 18, 2003
On 18 December 2003, Ambassador Salehi of Iran and the Director General of the IAEA signed an Additional Protocol to Iran's NPT safeguards agreement, granting Agency inspectors greater authority in verifying the country's nuclear programme. Iran has stated that it is acting in accordance with the Protocol's provisions, pending the Protocol's...
December 18, 2003
"I am very pleased with Iran's signing today of the Additional Protocol to the Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards". Thus declared Minister for Foreign Affairs Frattini, who underscored that this signing was the completion of a significant step forward in the process of clarifying the exclusively civilian nature of Iran's nuclear programme, to which...
December 12, 2003
A secure Europe in a better world: European security strategyBrussels, 12 December 2003