Iran Nuclear Timeline

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments

Timeline of Iran’s nuclear ambitions from 1957 to 2007.

Condensed graphical chronology of Iran’s Nuclear developments 2002-2007

I didn’t realise the extent of US (and European) involvement in Iran’s pre-revolutionary nuclear program (see the first timeline). Between 1957 and the Iranian revolution in 1979 we all but forced nuclear technology down their throats — supplying the uranium, the plutonium, building the enrichment facilities, and even attempting to sell 8 reactors to Iran (a transaction that was only halted because the revolution got in the way). Thankfully, after the revolution, the Iran-Iraq war happened and Iraq managed to bomb many of Iran’s nascent nuclear projects. Of course, during the course of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) the US sold Iraq several anthrax cultures (and other pathogens) via the American Type Culture Collection. Then we spent the 1990s onward playing inspection games with both Iran (nuclear) and Iraq (bio-chemical) — which in neither case seem to have effectively curtailed the criminal ambitions of these nations.

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