“IRAN is not frightened by the threat of any country and it will continue the path of production of nuclear energy.”
With those words from president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s engineers ripped off the seals on their uranium-enrichment equipment and fired up the Natanz plant in central Iran. The move came in defiance of the governments of the European Union and the US, which fear that Iran will use the findings of its research to produce material to make a nuclear bomb.
But the issue of nuclear proliferation goes much wider than Iran. The number of nuclear reactors around the world…
