• Iran and the I.A.E.A. | Seymour M. Hersh (The New Yorker)
    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2011/11/iran-and-the-iaea.html

    I’ve been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeated inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran. The goal of the high-risk American covert operations was to find something physical—a “smoking calutron,” as a knowledgeable official once told me—to show the world that Iran was working on warheads at an undisclosed site, to make the evidence public, and then to attack and destroy the site. (...) Source: The New Yorker