Iran's atomic journey.(Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Bomb)(Book Review)

From: The National Interest | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Al J. Venter, Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Bomb (New York: Casemate, 2005), 451 pp., $29.95.

NO ISSUE looms larger on the contemporary foreign policy agenda of the United States and its European allies than the Islamic Republic of Iran. Over the past three years, unmistakable signs that the Iranian regime is trying to acquire an offensive nuclear capability--and making serious progress toward that goal--have become an almost daily occurrence. Revelations of secret labs for advanced uranium enrichment, disclosures of new mining and refining stations, and ...

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