Sentences with phrase «weapon programs pursued»

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Neytanyahu delivered a visual - heavy presentation Monday that claimed to prove Tehran secretly pursued developing nuclear weapons, in a bid to undermine support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 agreement signed with six major world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief.

Netanyahu's bottom line was that going back years, Iran lied about its nuclear program and secretly pursued weaponization research that would allow it to convert its supposedly peaceful civil nuclear program into a weapons program.

The core of Netanyahu's presentation Monday was that Iran had been pursuing nuclear weapons — in a program it called «Project Amad» — prior to 2003.

But while the latest IAEA report is certainly set to contain new, specific information about Iran's program, there has been little serious doubt in recent years that Iran has continued to actively pursue nuclear weapons.

A signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1968, Iran is allowed to retain a peaceful nuclear program and has, since that time, committed not to pursue nuclear weapons.

While people tend to associate the United States» atomic bomb efforts with Japan and the war in the Pacific, the Manhattan Project — the American program to produce an atomic bomb — was actually undertaken in reaction to Allied suspicions that the Germans were actively pursuing such a weapon.

He already had made significant contributions to the weapons program and has the potential to be a Laboratory leader in the coming years, especially if given the opportunity to pursue his varied research interests.