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Source: http://isis-online.org/conferences/detail/what-is-new-in-the-iran-nuclear-archive
What Is New in the Iran Nuclear Archive?
(Institute for Science and International Security) David Albright - The nuclear archive seized by Israel in Iran contains much new information not previously available to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or Western governments about Iran's past work on nuclear weapons. According to the Israelis, it presents a relatively complete and alarming picture of Iran's nuclear weapons efforts, and in far more detail than previously available. Based on public information and background briefings by senior Israeli intelligence officials, new information includes: blueprints for the production of all the components of nuclear weapons, the location of planned nuclear weapons test sites, and details about a second building at the Parchin site involved in high explosive work related to nuclear weapons in an explosive chamber. This building has not been visited by the IAEA. The archive shows much more detail about Iran's extensive work on uranium metallurgy including ample evidence of Iran having all the equipment for all the work needed in a nuclear weapons uranium metallurgy program. It also provides direct evidence that the secret Fordow enrichment site was being built to make weapon-grade uranium. The writer, a former UN weapons inspector, is founder and president of the Institute.