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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2001 [i.e. 2001]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)46566990 Subject: Ballistic missiles -- Iran. Excerpt: ... 11 We also have evidence that Russian entities are interacting with Iranian nuclear research centers on a wide variety of activities be-yond the Bushehr project. Many of these projects also have direct application to the production of weapons-grade fissile material. China pledged in 1997 not to engage in any new nuclear coopera-tion with Iran but said it would complete two ongoing projects. One of those - a small research reactor - has since been completed, and progress is still being made on a zirconium production facility that Iran will use to produce cladding for nuclear fuel. It is our assess-ment that China is abiding by its pledge not to engage in new nu-clear activity with Iran. Mr. Chairman, the Intelligence Community continues to monitor developments in the Iranian nuclear program and nuclear energy program very carefully. We regularly provide classified assess-ments of the progress that Iran is making to the Administration, to U.S. war-fighters, and to the Congress as a result of the impor-tance of this issue. However, we are reluctant to provide additional details in an unclassified setting as to what timelines we believe exist for the Iranians to develop a nuclear weapon. I would like to turn now to Iran's chemical warfare ( CW ) pro-gram, which is one of the largest in the Third World. Iran launched its offensive CW program in the early 1980 ' s in response to Bagh-dad's use of CW during the Iran-Iraq war. We believe the program remains active despite Tehran's decision in 1997 to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. Iran has a large and growing CW production capacity, and already has produced a number of CW agents, including nerve, blister, choking, and blood agents. We be-lieve in addition that it possesses a significant stockpile
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Iran's ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation
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