How to build an atomic warhead: the IAEA Iran report.

The Novemeber 8 2011 IAEA report effectively takes the reader through the basic steps of making a nuclear warhead, from uranium enrichment and detonation principles to missile nose cone engineering and delivery altitude. It even touches on a problem associated with the deep shaft needed to test the bomb. At each step, the report cites evidence that the IRI has been working on these specific problems. The nuclear project organizational chart that IAEA intel has pieced together is impressive and the work that has been done to eliminate alternative explanations for this work is convincing. Despite the apparent thoroughness, the only evidence I was able to crosscheck independently fell apart quickly.

Page 9 of the annex to the report says, “The Agency has strong indications that the development by Iran of the high explosives initiation system, and its development of the high speed diagnostic configuration used to monitor related
experiments, were assisted by the work of a foreign expert who was not only knowledgeable in these
technologies, but who, a Member State has informed the Agency, worked for much of his career with this
technology in the nuclear weapon programme of the country of his origin. “

The name of this foreign expert is Vyacheslav Danilenko, Ukranian by nationality. In the 1990s (and perhaps later) Danilenko was in Iran to help develop Iran’s  nano technology industry, specifically the production of nano diamonds. Applications include, dry lubricants, polishing compounds, engine oil additives, material reinforcement… It is a commonly known fact that Iran has a strong interest in nano technology.  Nano diamond manufacture however involves detonating precisely timed explosives, also a key process in triggering a nuclear bomb. Admittedly, very suspicious dual use. The IAEA however seems to have taken the word of the “member state” in that Danilenko “worked for much of his career with this technology in the nuclear weapon programme of the country of his origin.” Yes, but mostly no!

Danilenko did work in the former Soviet Union’s Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics. This institute did work on nuclear warheads. But it also worked on other things, including nano diamonds. Danielko is a recognized scientist in the area of nano diamond research with many publications in the field and none have to do with weapons making. The suddenly famous Danilenko has said his work has nothing to do with making bombs. Actually it does, indirectly—precisely timed super-strong explosions in a vessel; just what you would need to trigger a nuclear bomb. So he’s not being straightforward either. On the other hand, unlike IAEA, his cagey statements can’t provoke a war.

By omitting relevant mitigating information about Danilenko, the IAEA has discredited its own report. The agecy has shown bias in its williingness to accept unquestioningly the agenda prone word of the “member state.” Unfortunate, as this little lie let’s the IRI get away with its big lie…that is if they are lying and the IAEA is “not.” 

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