[New York Times] William J. Broad and David E. Sanger - Senior staff members of the UN nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable" atom bomb. The report's conclusions, described by senior European officials, go well beyond the public positions taken by several governments, including the U.S. The report presents evidence that beyond improving upon bomb-making information gathered from rogue nuclear experts around the world, Iran has done extensive research and testing on how to fashion the components of a weapon. The report, titled "Possible Military Dimensions of Iran's Nuclear Program," draws a picture of a program begun in 2002, run by Iran's Ministry of Defense, "aimed at the development of a nuclear payload to be delivered using the Shahab 3 missile system," which can strike the Middle East and parts of Europe.
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