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Israel’s Oct. 26 retaliatory strike on Iran « destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility », according to an Axios report. The news outlet spoke to various U.S. and Israeli officials about the strikes, including one on Iran’s Parchin Military Complex, a nuclear research facility that was « previously reported to be inactive. »
« One former Israeli official briefed on the strike said it destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it. »
Iran claims to have brought its military nuclear program to a halt in 2003, and yet the Taleghan 2 building at Parchin « was used for testing explosives needed to set off a nuclear device, according to the Institute for Science and International Security. »
« They conducted scientific activity that could lay the ground for the production of a nuclear weapon. It was a top-secret thing. A small part of the Iranian government knew about this, but most of the Iranian government didn’t », a U.S. official told Axios.
What’s interesting is that Israel knew about a nuclear weapons research facility that most of the Iranian government did not.
