(New York Times) William J. Broad - Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country. In doing so, American government and private experts say, Iran has not only shielded its infrastructure from military attack in warrens of dense rock, but it has further obscured the scale and nature of its notoriously opaque nuclear effort. The discovery of the Qum uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain only heightened fears about other undeclared sites. Google Earth, for instance, shows that the original hub of the nuclear complex at Isfahan consists of scores of easily observed buildings. But in recent years Iran has honeycombed the nearby mountains with tunnels. Satellite photos show six entrances.
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