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Buildings at Iran’s Isfahan facility show extensive damage after Israeli strikes.

Some of Iran’s enriched uranium survived attacks, Israeli official says

Any attempts by Iran to recover it would almost certainly be detected, and the facilities could be bombed again, a senior Israeli official says.

  • David E. Sanger

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Melissa Parke: “Australia’s current reliance on US nuclear weapons in our defence policy is both dangerous and absurd.”

Is the world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe? This expert thinks so

There are 12,000 nuclear weapons in the world, many of which are controlled by AI. We are close to a catastrophe.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Mourners gather around the flag-draped coffins of Iranians killed in Israeli strikes, as one of them holds a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran.

Iran’s latest decision reveals flaw in Trump’s big plan

The only card left for the Iranians to play is that their uranium survived the US bombing. Maybe they are bluffing. But it exposes the enduring flaw in Trump’s bombing plan.

  • David E. Sanger
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei previously resisted actually building a bomb. That could all now change.

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
US nuclear targets in Iran.

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
Iran is vulnerable and Israel and the US are weighing their options.

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
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‘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

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US President Donald Trump on strikes against Iran: “I may do it. I may not do it.”

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
A satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear plant in central Iran.

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

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