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IAEA Report: Iran Researching Computer Models That 'Could Only Be Used to Develop A Nuclear Bomb'

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The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 08/11/11 18:08 Updated: 09/11/11 08:26

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Iran has carried out tests specific to "the development of a nuclear device", the UN's atomic watchdog has reported.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report highlights research into "computer models that could only be used to develop a nuclear bomb".

The report says: "The application of such studies to anything other than nuclear explosives is unclear to the agency."

Iran publically gave up its weapons programme in 2003, and has maintained that the country's nuclear research programme is purely for the purpose of generating civilian power.

However, the IAEA and western governments have long-suspected that the programme to turn Iran into a nuclear-armed state continued in secrecy, with Wednesday's publication likely to ramp up tensions in the region.

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Genders
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04:11 on 02/12/2011
War drum propaganda...
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Genders
Love, Tolerance, Enlightenment
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04:52 on 02/12/2011
Read it. http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iaeairan/bog112011-65.pdf

Typical reaching: "The Agency has also found, through open source research, other Iranian publications which relate to the application of detonation shock dynamics to the modelling of detonation in high explosives, and the use of hydrodynamic codes in the modelling of jet formation with shaped (hollow) charges. Such studies are commonly used in reactor physics or conventional ordnance research, but also have applications in the development of nuclear explosives. "
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No7ThePostOffice
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18:51 on 27/11/2011
Oh come on. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of science could design a nuclear weapon. Software is not needed - in an age virtually devoid of computer technology the A bomb was developed and dropped on Hiroshima and then the H bomb. I'm afraid the human race you me and everyone must realise Pandoras box has been opened - only the threat (and it must be credible) of nuclear retaliation will stop this from happeneing. Diplomacy will not work against fanatics. It may be the human race will witness in the near future the Earths first nuclear war.
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Nwo2012
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22:51 on 16/11/2011
Oh. My. God.

The Iranians have got software. SOFTWARE. Were doomed. Doomed I say. Run for the hills!

I bet none of it is licensed. Send in the copyright police. Those guys are like piranha. We need to start bombing Iran NOW...or shut down the Pirate Bay.
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majesticjkr
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11:12 on 12/11/2011
the world should be run by one law, there should be one goverment controlling the earth, its the only way were ever going to progress, to much waist to many deaths, we spend our time fighting and killing its just not getting the human race anywere, were all hating eachother, one goverment to run the hole world with one law for everyone, this way we dont need big bloody bombs, we have a world army in place to keep the peace and the police to see we all live in harmony why'll we all progress, jobs for everyone, it can be acheived if we all agree to agree, and we need to get rid of religions, there to much trouble, you dont need churches and mosks to pray, you can pray in your own home, we need to live as one,
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Nwo2012
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12:30 on 09/11/2011
israel wont attack Iran.

israel is notorious for not being able to take casualties. They don't go to war unless they can bomb from 35,000 feet without any risk.
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Genders
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04:10 on 02/12/2011
huh? no. google israeli commandos raid
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19:50 on 08/11/2011
UN claims Iran is developing an atomic bomb - while the US is developing several thousand, along with microwave weapons, offensive satelte systems, bilogical weapons...
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martin d
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19:39 on 08/11/2011
no one is buying this,, unless of course your a Texas preacher, Israel looking to flex its muscles in the middle east because of the Syria situation.
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19:02 on 08/11/2011
As I said in an earlier comment this morning, I have never been so fearful since the Cuban missile crisis.
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Quinterius
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01:19 on 09/11/2011
Relax. Nothing is going to happen. It is all empty bluster. Israel is too chicken to attack Iran and Obama is too busy trying to save his failed presidency.
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Quinterius
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18:52 on 08/11/2011
More nonsensical bluster from the incompetent head of IAEA, Amano. He just reports whatever the US tells him. He should resign immediately. He has no credibility. Apparently, the new report will complain that some Russian scientist gave lectures to Iranian nuclear engineers in the 1990s. This statement is simply a preposterous in a report that is supposed to be the basis for bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. Don't we have anything more important to do than to pay attention to this total irrelevant organization? Why is Amano not complaining about the Obama plan to spend $85B to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal? What happened to the effort to force Israel to sign the NPT?
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MolliBlum
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20:04 on 08/11/2011
Agree on Amano as very compliant.
None of this stuff is "news", anyway. It's just being packaged in scarier terms.
Now it is being spun as "hard evidence" of a "possibility".
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