Iran, US and some nuclear weapons

A nuclear weaponized Iran destabilizes the region, prompts a regional arms race, and wastes the scarce resources in the region. And taking account of U.S. nuclear arsenal and its policy of ensuring a strategic edge for Israel, an Iranian bomb will accord Iran no security dividends

Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom), says construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran does not threaten the nonproliferation regime.

CHRONOLOGY-Iran's nuclear program

A build up to the WMD story in Iran.

While the world focuses on the development of Iran’s nuclear capability, it overlooks something that may prove to be an even greater threat—Iran’s maturing space program. Iran is in the midst of rapidly developing its own space program. Its efforts are three pronged: to enhance surveillance of the surrounding region, to improve both the accuracy and reach of its military strike capability, and, finally, to lift its prestige among its fellow Islamic nations and within the world at large