7/11/2008: Intel News Brief: Evidence of an alleged Iranian Intention
to Build Nuclear Weapons:

A 15-page paper on the process requirements for casting and machining
of uranium metal into hemispherical forms - said to useful only for
making the core of a nuclear weapon - has been raised by the United
Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in recent months as
evidence of an alleged Iranian intention to build nuclear weapons.

The agency's May 26, 2008, report said Pakistan had confirmed that "an
identical document exists in Pakistan" but provided no additional
information on what had been learned about it. The same report
asserted that the issue remains "outstanding", and that the IAEA's
"overall assessment of the nature of Iran's nuclear program ...
requires, inter alia, an understanding of the role of the uranium
metal document".

Two days later, the deputy director and head of the Safeguards
Department of the IAEA, Olli Heinonen, was quoted by an anonymous
diplomatic source in an Agence France-Presse report as telling a
closed-door briefing of IAEA member-states in Vienna that Iran's
possession of the document was "alarming".