How America Jump-Started Iran’s Nuclear Program

[KenH]

"For several decades, the U.S. has sought to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But ironically, the reason Iran has the technology to build these weapons in the first place is because the U.S. helped Iran develop nuclear infrastructure between 1957 and 1979. This nuclear assistance was part of a Cold War strategy known as “Atoms for Peace.”
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At the time, the U.S. was closely allied with Iran’s Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. So closely, in fact, that when Iran toppled the Shah’s monarchy and democratically elected a prime minister, the CIA staged a 1953 coup d’état that put the Shah back in power. Part of the reason the U.S. valued Iran as an ally was because of its strategic location bordering the Soviet Union. During the early part of the Cold War, the U.S. set up a base in Iran to monitor Soviet activity.

In this context, the United States’ nuclear cooperation with Iran “was, in part, a means to shore up the relationship between those countries,” Fuhrmann says. The cooperation lasted until 1979, when the the Iranian Revolution ousted the Shah and the U.S. lost the country as an ally."

- rest of article at How America Jump-Started Iran’s Nuclear Program | HISTORY

 

[Foxmeister]

"For several decades, the U.S. has sought to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But ironically, the reason Iran has the technology to build these weapons in the first place is because the U.S. helped Iran develop nuclear infrastructure between 1957 and 1979. This nuclear assistance was part of a Cold War strategy known as “Atoms for Peace.”
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At the time, the U.S. was closely allied with Iran’s Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. So closely, in fact, that when Iran toppled the Shah’s monarchy and democratically elected a prime minister, the CIA staged a 1953 coup d’état that put the Shah back in power. Part of the reason the U.S. valued Iran as an ally was because of its strategic location bordering the Soviet Union. During the early part of the Cold War, the U.S. set up a base in Iran to monitor Soviet activity.

In this context, the United States’ nuclear cooperation with Iran “was, in part, a means to shore up the relationship between those countries,” Fuhrmann says. The cooperation lasted until 1979, when the the Iranian Revolution ousted the Shah and the U.S. lost the country as an ally."

- rest of article at How America Jump-Started Iran’s Nuclear Program | HISTORY

"For several decades, the U.S. has sought to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But ironically, the reason Iran has the technology to build these weapons in the first place is because the U.S. helped Iran develop nuclear infrastructure between 1957 and 1979."

If what I put in bold were true, one would think they would have several nuclear weapons by now. Where are they?

 

[KenH]

If what I put in bold were true, one would think they would have several nuclear weapons by now. Where are they?

You would have to ask someone with that knowledge. Maybe for the same reason only 9 countries out of the almost 200 countries in the world have nuclear weapons after all these decades since World War II. It's expensive and takes more technology and know-how than just knowing how to use uranium for medical purposes.

I do know that only one country has ever used nuclear weapons in mass killings. I hope that in God's absolute, total sovereignty over every atom in the universe, that such never happens again.