David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos’s Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State will be out next year.

Doing It by Ourselves: Nuclear Iran

David Patrikarakos, 1 December 2011

On 12 November a blast ripped through the Alghadir missile base, 25 miles south-west of Tehran. Among the 17 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard killed was Brigadier General Hassan Moghaddam, the architect of the country’s missile programme. Tehran said the explosion was an accident, but it came just days after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had tested...

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