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In Fabricating Uranium Metal, Iran Makes Public Illicit Work Already Undertaken
(Telegraph-UK) John Bolton - Iran is fabricating uranium metal, the International Atomic Energy Agency told its members on Feb. 10. Uranium metal's most common use is forming the hollow sphere of highly-enriched uranium at the core of nuclear weapons. Tehran has again made public illicit work already undertaken, but previously undisclosed. The speed with which Iran produced uranium metal is significant. Tehran assured the IAEA in mid-December it would likely take four-five months, not less than two, to fabricate metal. This follows a pattern Jim Baker once called "cheat and then retreat": Iran admits to illicit nuclear-weapons activity only when public disclosure is imminent and inevitable, or when it seems advantageous to do so. The writer is a former U.S. national security adviser.