Nuclear disarmament
He’s still alive – seemingly with 400kg of uranium. What will Iran’s supreme leader do next?
Having survived Israel’s 12-day bombardment, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could now go directly to North Korea in a race to build a bomb.
- Roland Oliphant
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Radiation dangers of three nuclear sites struck by the US
Risks from one of the three Iranian nuclear sites “obliterated” by the US are concerning atomic scientists.
- Angus Dalton
How the innocuous pager set in motion a potentially catastrophic war
A Mossad plot is just one of a series of events that have weakened Iran’s proxies, leaving it dangerously exposed.
- Nick O'Malley
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
Marshall Islands locals watched radioactive coral fall from the sky for hours after the US’s bomb tests, 71 years ago. Now they face another existential threat.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
- Magazine
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Trump has approved Iran attack plan but is yet to hit go, US media reports
A senior intelligence source told US media the president wanted to give Tehran more time to agree to a deal as Iran struck an Israeli hospital.
- Jana Choukeir, Alexander Cornwell and Crispian Balmer
What happens if a nuclear facility is blown up? The contamination threat explained
The fallout of blowing up nuclear sites, how close Iran is to making a bomb and how Israel’s nuclear stockpile measures up.
- Angus Delaney
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
Few believe Iran has nuclear weapons. We can’t afford to repeat the Iraq War lie
Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Iran is on course to produce nuclear weapons within weeks. Meanwhile, he omits that Israel itself has its own substantial nuclear program.
- Amin Saikal
Iran ruler’s iron grip has lasted almost four decades. Who is the man Israel wants to kill?
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is deeply sceptical of the West, but is willing to bend when the survival of the Islamic republic is at stake.
- Angus Delaney
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
Trump has the bomb that could destroy Iran’s ‘nuclear mountain’. Israel may not need it
One previous plan to take out Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear site involved Israeli commandos, but such an attack would be hugely risky, and potentially deadly.
- Joe Barnes
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