Another Breathless Release on Iran from the Secret Files of International Atomic Energy Agency PDF Print E-mail
Sam Gardiner 14 November 20009

Hardly a week goes by when we don’t read “secret” information from the IAEA dossier on Iran.  The leaks are always suggesting Iran is farther along on a nuclear weapons program than we realized without this secret information.

The most recent was a piece in the Guardian on 5 November.  The piece, by a usually the quite reliable Diplomatic Editor, Julian Borger, had to do with a nuclear weapon design that Iran is supposed to have tested.  The technology described in the article is called a “two-point implosion” device.

Making the revelation even more shocking, the Guardian says, “The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain.”  Wow, that must mean the Iranians are really on to something.

Woops.  It turns out that this new technology, the very existence of which is secret, has been described in detail in the public domain for over fifty years, yes, 50 years.  It was described by a Swedish scientist, Torsten Magnusson in a 1956 paper entitled “Design and Effects of Nuclear Weapons.”  His paper even showed a drawing of the technology, the existence of which is officially secret in both the U.S and Britain:

The pressure to do something about Iran seems to be developing from many sides. I sent the Magnusson paper to Julian Borger.
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