GS232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fordo, Shimon Peres, Yukiya Amano
Document Summary
Gs232 week 7: the iran nuclear deal: project. Iran original signatory to the nuclear npt. Key implications: commitment to non-proliferation, right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Under the npt it is not illegal to have a nuclear weapons capability. If a country has a solid civilian nuclear infrastructure, it already has a nuclear weapons capability. Just like iran, countries like argentina, japan, and. Thakur et al: nuclear energy for peaceful purposes can legitimately be pursued to the point of being perhaps a screwdriver turn away from a weapons capability . Growing stockpile of uranium some of it enriched to 20% Increase in the number of centrifuges, including new generation machines. Near completion of research reactor at arak. Reluctance to implement additional protocol (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Us director of national intelligence (2003): high level of confidence that no decision to weaponize made in tehran.
