The very first article I saw in today's issue of the NYT had the word A-bomb in the title. Without reading any other titles, I picked up the paper and started reading the story, titled "U.N. Agency Says Iran Data Points to A-Bomb Work". The title alone made me a little nervous just because it mentioned a bomb, but nonetheless, I wanted to read on. Apparently the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report saying because of new evidence the U.N. has amassed it finally made a judgement "in its decade-long struggle to pierce the secrecy surrounding the Iranian program." There are discussions about how to stop the Iranian program, whether by diplomatic pressure, sanctions, sabotage, or even military action. The reporters explain that because of past issues with credibility and false information/reports, the judgment includes a section called "credibility of information". One of the other key things I noted about the information in this article was that the reporters explained how the report laid out how Iran had created computer models of nuclear explosions and they conducted experiments on nuclear triggers. "It said the simulations focused on how shock waves from conventional explosives could compress the spherical fuel at the core of a nuclear device, which starts the chain reaction that ends in nuclear explosion." Yikes! Now that's something to think about.
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