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In October 2003 the Islamic Republic of Iran admitted that it had secretly been producing highly enriched, weapons-grade Uranium. This revelaton shocked world, as did Iran`s further confession that it had been pursuing a clandestine Nuclear Programme for nearly two decades. Throughout 2004, the UN and leading European nations tried to persuade Tehran to abandon its efforts to gain a Nuclear Weapons Capability. As Washington and Tel Aviv looked on, however, the larger question became how to verify the good faith of an avowedly hostile nation, and if all else failed, how to pre-empt the threat by force. In Iran`s Nuclear Option: Tehran`s Quest for the Atom Bomb, Al J. Venter lays out in meticulous detail the Mullah Regime`s silent March toward acquiring nuclear weapons. He first describes the nature of the Iranian rgime, which evolved from the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He then turns to the mechanics of Iran`s Nuclear Program, its acquisitions through the international black market, and the technological problems it has steadily overcome. He also examines Iran`s Missile Program, developed with the help of North Korea, its Unconventional Weapons, and Tehran`s record of fostering terrorism through the auspices of its fanatic Pasdaran Military Arm. Of special interest in this book is a rare look at a rague Nuclear Weapons program that once succeeded. In tracing the development of Atomic Weapons in his native South Africa, the Author provides a grim case example of what the Iranian regime is capable of achieving, as well as a glimpse of the new diaspora of Nuclear Scientists flung off by the end of Apartheid. ISBN 8170492505
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Pages : 451
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