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Newsletters
August 29, 2025
This month’s newsletter features a report analyzing how quickly Iran might enrich enough uranium to fuel a small nuclear arsenal in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli air strikes in June.
Articles and Reports
August 26, 2025
How quickly might Iran enrich enough uranium for a small nuclear arsenal in the aftermath of the Israeli and U.S. strikes? This analysis considers scenarios involving various sizes of secret sites and differing levels of usable enriched uranium stockpiles.
Newsletters
July 25, 2025
This month’s newsletter features a report on the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were targeted in airstrikes last month. The international community has long raised concerns about the dual-use potential of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, which could be used to make fuel for reactors or weapons.
Weapon Program Background Report
July 24, 2025
The international community has long raised concerns about the dual-use potential of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, which could be used to make fuel for reactors or weapons. Israel and the United States acted on those concerns, carrying out airstrikes that caused serious damage to a number of Iranian nuclear facilities.
Articles and Reports
June 24, 2025
On June 21, the United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran in an operation designed to “severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure,” according to General Dan Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is still too early to know how much damage was actually inflicted.
Newsletters
June 13, 2025
Update: Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani survived the Israeli strikes in June 2025, contrary to initial reporting. He was seen attending a funeral held on June 28 for the generals and scientists killed in the strikes.
Weapon Program Background Report
June 11, 2025
In recent years, Iran has developed and deployed centrifuge models that can enrich greater amounts of uranium with fewer machines relative to its original IR-1 design. This table sets out the number of installed and operational centrifuges at Iran's enrichment sites, as well as the capacity and primary materials of each centrifuge model.
Articles and Reports
June 11, 2025
How quickly could Iran get enough fissile material for a small nuclear arsenal? This timetable estimates how quickly Iran could amass enough weapons-grade uranium for at least five bombs. Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon.
Newsletters
May 29, 2025
This month’s newsletter features a new episode of Iran Watch Listen, a podcast by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
Interviews and Podcasts
May 22, 2025
In this episode of Iran Watch Listen, we sat down with Behnam Ben Taleblu and Michael Eisenstadt to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls facing the second Trump administration as it makes a last-ditch effort to prevent Iran’s nuclear program from crossing the threshold to a bomb.