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Iran Joins the Nuclear Club, Moves Toward Large-Scale Enrichment

Blair Golson / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Tehran successfully enriched uranium for the first time on Tuesday, and signaled its intention to expand the program rapidly. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract Named

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Remember the uranium ore that Hussein supposedly purchased from Niger? A contract documenting the sale was used as evidence of the need to invade Iraq and was included in a 2002 U.S. State Department fact sheet on Iraq's weapons program. Remember how the IAEA denounced the documents as fakes shortly before the invasion of Iraq? Well, according to the Times Online, the forgers have finally been named. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scott Ritter Argues That Iran Poses No Real Threat

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Former intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter cuts through a recent L.A. Times story which claimed that "Iran could manufacture enough highly enriched uranium to build a bomb within three years." He provides a rather technical, but extremely convincing, argument for why it is unlikely that Iran could pose a nuclear threat anytime soon. (video: h/t Crooks and Liars) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Was Warned Repeatedly on Aluminum Tubes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2006 Karl Rove kept the public from knowing before the 2004 election that Bush had been apprised "directly and repeatedly" that Saddam's infamous aluminum tubes might have been for conventional--not nuclear--weapons. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Iran To Resume Nuclear Fuel Tests

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 U.N. warns that world is running out of patience with Tehran | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )