Iranisches Atomprogramm

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Hätte mir eigentlich gleich denken können das es Zeitverschwendung ist, aber bitte schön:

Wo ist das Problem?
Der Typ hatte sien Leben lang mit hochpräzisen Detonationsvorrichtungen zu tun. Eben genau das was man zur Konstruktion einer Implosionsbome benötigt.
Schon der Washington Post Artikel macht deutlich, das er eigentlich meinte an zivilen Projekten im Iran zu arbeiten, das vermittelte Fachwissen von den Iranern aber zum Bombenbau benutzt wird.

According to Albright, one key breakthrough that has not been publicly described was Iran’s success in obtaining design information for a device known as an R265 generator. The device is a hemispherical aluminum shell with an intricate array of high explosives that detonate with split-second precision. These charges compress a small sphere of enriched uranium or plutonium to trigger a nuclear chain reaction.
Creating such a device is a formidable technical challenge, and Iran needed outside assistance in designing the generator and testing its performance, Albright said.
According to the intelligence provided to the IAEA, key assistance in both areas was provided by Vyacheslav Danilenko, a former Soviet nuclear scientist who was contracted in the mid-1990s by Iran’s Physics Research Center, a facility linked to the country’s nuclear program. Documents provided to the U.N. officials showed that Danilenko offered assistance to the Iranians over at least five years, giving lectures and sharing research papers on developing and testing an explosives package that the Iranians apparently incorporated into their warhead design, according to two officials with access to the IAEA’s confidential files.
Danilenko’s role was judged to be so critical that IAEA investigators devoted considerable effort to obtaining his cooperation, the two officials said. The scientist acknowledged his role but said he thought his work was limited to assisting civilian engineering projects, the sources said.

Im IAEA Bericht heißt es dazu:

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 Agency has reviewed
publications by this foreign expert and has met with him. The Agency has been able to verify through
three separate routes, including the expert himself, that this person was in Iran from about 1996 to about
2002, ostensibly to assist Iran in the development of a facility and techniques for making ultra-dispersed
diamonds (“UDDs” or “nanodiamonds”), where he also lectured on explosion physics and its applications.

Die Information das der Typ im sowjetischen Atomwaffenprogramm gearbeitet hätte kommt von einem Member State. Es ist logisch, das dein Artikel dazu keine öffentlich zugänglichen Informationen findet. Das er anscheinend auch in zivilen Forschungsbereichen tätig war sagt nichts aus. Die Technologien an denen er forschte sind dual use, das kann ohne weiteres zusammenpassen.
Dein Artikel wirft hier ohne Not mit Nebelkerzen. Es ist hier sehr gut möglich das die Iraner den Typen sogar in seiner zivilen Kapazität angeheuert haben und der dort unten tatsächlich sein ziviles Fachwissen weitergegeben hat. Das dann die Iraner halt allerdings auch für ihr Waffenprogramm verwendeten.

Aber das das Gareth Porter nicht auf die Reihe bekommt ist nicht sonderlich verwunderlich.