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Russian Scientist's Aid to Iran Offers Peek at Nuclear Program
(Washington Post) Joby Warrick - When the Cold War ended in 1991, Vyacheslav Danilenko, 57, was a Soviet weapons scientist with three decades of experience inside a top-secret nuclear facility and one marketable skill: the ability to make objects blow up with nanosecond precision. A report last week by the International Atomic Energy Agency highlighted the role of a "foreign expert" - identified by Western diplomats as Danilenko - in Iran's efforts to gain expertise in disciplines essential to building a nuclear warhead. Foreign scientists such as Danilenko enabled Iran to leapfrog over technical hurdles that otherwise could have taken years to overcome, according to UN officials, Western diplomats and weapons experts.