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Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor of the former Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China.
Iran has had a civilian nuclear energy program for more than fifty years, long maintaining that it’s strictly for peaceful purposes. But revelations in the early 2000s about the country’s...
Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has signed treaties repudiating the possession of WMD including the Biological Weapons Convention, [1] the Chemical Weapons Convention, [2] and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). [3] .
In 2022, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran head Mohammad Eslami announced a strategic plan for 10 GWe of nuclear electricity generation. [16] . In October 2023, an IAEA report estimated Iran had increased its uranium stockpile 22 times over the 2015 agreed JCPOA limit. [17]
Iran is now enriching uranium to up to 60% purity and has enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for two nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy...
“Iran has enough 60 percent material for roughly three nuclear weapons, if further enriched to 90 percent. When you include Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium and 5 percent, it has enough material for several additional bombs,” Brewer said.
Nine countries currently have nuclear weapons: the US, UK, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Who can develop them? In theory, pretty much anyone with the...
Iran has significantly advanced its nuclear program since the Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal. It is the only non-nuclear weapons country to produce 60% enriched uranium...
For months, nonproliferation experts have suggested Iran had enough uranium enriched up to 60 percent to build at least one nuclear weapon — though Tehran long has insisted its program is...
Iran is now enriching uranium to up to 60% fissile purity, close to the 90% of weapons grade, at two sites, and in theory it has enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for...