Foreign Suppliers to Iran's Nuclear Development

 

Necessary steps to weapon assembly Optional Alternative paths to fissile material aquisition

Notes:

1. This fact sheet includes only open-source accounts; there may be additional transactions that have not been reported. It contains reported transactions that could be applied in a civilian nuclear energy program or to nuclear weapon development. The data is drawn primarily from: Andrew Koch and Jeanette Wolf, "Iran's Nuclear Procurement Program: How Close to the Bomb?" The Nonproliferation Review, (Fall 1997), pp.123-135; Andrew Koch and Jeanette Wolf, "Iran's Nuclear Facilities: a Profile," 1998, (http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/pdfs/iranrpt.pdf); Andrew Koch and Jeanette Wolf, "Appendix: Selected Iranian Nuclear Imports," 1998, (http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/pdfs/irantbl.pdf).

2. Flowchart adapted from U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction,(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1993),p.120.