Born In The USA: How America Created Iran's Nuclear Program
Steve Inskeep - NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/18/440567960/born-in-the-u-s-a-how-america-created-irans-nuclear-programThis is the story of the United States, the atom and Iran. It's the story of a historic nuclear agreement ... "It started in 1957," he says, "and ironically, it is a creation of the United States. The U.S. provided Iran with its first research reactor ..." ... The U.S. built that nuclear reactor in 1967 on the campus of Tehran University. It also provided Iran with fuel for that reactor - weapons-grade enriched uranium. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was part of President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, an initiative to provide countries with peaceful, civilian nuclear technologies in the hope that they wouldn't pursue military nuclear programs. The beneficiaries included Israel, India, Pakistan - and Iran, then ruled by a U.S.-backed monarch, Shah Reza Pahlavi.
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