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IAEA Says Iran Has Document For Making Nuclear Weapon Parts

January 31, 2006

Muhammad el-Baradei, head of the IAEA, which says it saw a document from Iran that could only be used to make nuclear weapons parts (file photo) (AFP)

31 January 2006 -- Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said today that they have seen a document from Iran whose only use could be for making nuclear weapon parts.

The IAEA says Iranian authorities refused to allow the agency to copy the document.


The agency also confirmed today that Iran has started preparations for enriching uranium.


The details come in a new report to the IAEA's Board of Governors. The report is to be discussed at an emergency meeting of the board on 2 February, which is expected to refer Iran to the UN Security Council.


Uranium enrichment is a process that produces fuel for use in nuclear reactors. It can also produce material for atomic weapons.


(AFP, AP, ITAR-TASS, Reuters)

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Who's Got The Bomb?

DECLARED NUCLEAR-WEAPONS COUNTRIES:

country                  warheads (est.)         date of first test

United States         10,500                           1945

Russia                      18,000                          1949

United Kingdom      200                              1952

France                       350                              1960

China                          400                             1964

India                           60-90                          1974

Pakistan                     28-48                          1998

North Korea               0-18                            2006

Notes:

Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, but it has not declared itself a nuclear-armed country.

South Africa constructed six uranium bombs but voluntarily dismantled them.

Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine all gave up the nuclear weapons that were on their territory when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

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