Iran working on strategic size nukes, not battlefield weapons

Barak:  Iran is testing uranium- and plutonium-based bombs – not tactical nuclear arms DEBKAfile Special Report
17 Nov. Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the PBS interviewer Charlie Rose Wednesday, Nov. 16 that none of the experiments Iran was conducting was based on a neutron source.  “It’s always simultaneous explosions on heavy metals and certain other activities which cannot be explained,” he said. DEBKAfile‘s military sources note his stress on the lack of evidence that Iran was trying to develop tactical neutron bombs. Tehran, he said, was experimenting with uranium- and plutonium- based explosives, meaning large nuclear bombs rather than small, tactical warheads.  Barak warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would touch off a Middle East nuclear arms race drawing in Egypt and less responsible regimes headed by the Muslim Brotherhood. He did not believe sanctions would stop Iran in its nuclear tracks.

Comment: said above, but not clear is that Defense Minister Barak is talking about trigger experiments for plutonium or uranium bombs.

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