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Iran's New Space Rocket Could Double as a Nuclear Missile
(Forbes) David Axe - The Iranian regime on Monday announced it had test-launched, for the first time, its Zuljanah space launch vehicle. Zuljanah is a three-stage rocket that can loft a 500-pound payload as high as 310 miles, according to the Iranian government. For Iran, it's a big step forward for its effort to develop delivery vehicles for possible future nuclear warheads. If you bent the Zuljanah's trajectory, aiming for distance rather than height, you could carry a one-ton warhead as far as 3,100 miles, estimated Jeffrey Lewis, an arms-control expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California.