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Nuclear Iran

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Bernstein

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
217
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This succinct book is timely reading for anyone who wishes to understand the maze of science and secrecy at the heart of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Writing for the general reader, Jeremy Bernstein draws on his knowledge as a physicist to elucidate the scientific principles and technical hurdles involved in creating nuclear reactors and bombs.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
PART I Uranium
1. Round and Round
2. Frisch, Peierls, and Dirac
3. Unintended Consequences
4. God the Merciful, the Compassionate
PART II. Plutonium
5. Reactors
6. The Delta Phase
PART III. Dual Use
7. Unintended Consequences Redux
8. Among the Ayatollahs
9. Breakout
Epilogue
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Index

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