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Vyacheslav Danilenko is accused of helping Iran build a nuclear bomb
Posted by Arms Control Center in NEWS & POLITICS, tags: David Albright, explosive lenses, implosion device, Iran, nuclear bomb, plutonium pit, Vyacheslav DanilenkoAccording to David Albright the scientist who helped Iran develop a nuclear bomb is Vyacheslav Danilenko. The US nuclear watchdog claims that the Russian scientist helped Iran develop an implosion device (spherical explosive lenses) in order to achieve a nuclear explosion on a plutonium pit. Vyacheslav Danilenko denies it and lives peacefully in Russia at an advanced age.