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Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,701109,00.html
The Birth of a Bomb: A History of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
(Der Spiegel-Germany) Erich Follath and Holger Stark - In February 2008, the Finnish nuclear scientist Olli Heinonen, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confronted 35 diplomats in Vienna with new information about Tehran's nuclear program. For two hours, Heinonen projected images, diagrams and copies of manuscripts. "Project 5" described Iran's uranium mining program and how it processed the material into uranium hexafluoride, an intermediate product in the process of producing nuclear fuel. "Project 110" depicted the testing of highly explosive nuclear materials. "Project 111" illustrated attempts to build a warhead for Iran's Shahab-3 missile.