build nuclear weapons they continued the program in a sense to build nuclear weapons and archive provides incredibly value information how to go from the past to the presence. bret: one of the things you point out is that iran is closer now than it was before it paused its program back in 2003 to be able to build a nuclear weapon. that is right. it had bottlenecks in its program in 2003 and issues involving the making of but more importantly it had issues making the nuclear explosive and several years away from being able to complete an enrichment plan to make. what you see in the archive which is a new discovery was that the plan to make weaponry in the weapons program is what we know as the enrichment
plan. deeply buried underground site in iran that iran refuses to shut down, even though a very small compared to its larger enrichment plan. bret: the effort to get the information was done by the israeli intelligence facade. and we also know that three of the five key iranian leaders have been killed in recent years in december 2020. and i will read this quote. today iran does not have the program actually focused on building nuclear weapons but it does appear to have a program to be prepared to make nuclear weapons and to do so in short order. rather than crashing nuclear weapons program, iran to war with a program to produce nuclear weapons on demand. so as you see the biden administration really getting ready to step in this, you and the officials believe they are very close to get back into a deal. what is the warning knowing what
continue and possibly the coming days. joining us to talk about iran and his new book, pursuit of nuclear weapons, author david albright, thank you for joining us. good to be here. bret: you hear the u.s. sitting down but your book has interesting revelations but first of all, felt the israelis and efforts to find out more about the iran program in 2018 with an effort with tehran warehouse. the treasure trove of information about the iran program. and if not the greatest, one of the greatest testing operations with secret archive and laid out in great detail what iran had done back in early 2000s. and while they decided not to
you know? speak with the wanting is this nuclear deal does not stop iran s nuclear weapons program as you described. in fact, everyone is very concerned about how iran is building up its capabilities now. and it is very scary. but those capabilities will be much larger than the nuclear deal would unwind in 2030. it would be a much scarier rolled than it is today. iran would be much closer to build nuclear weapons. the international agency has got to be able to answer the question and i would say before the implementation of the reestablished iran program and is it peaceful? they took the archive and received a copy from israel. and for into the situation and iran and take some sites they suspected would have undeclared