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Illustrative image of a hacker at work (Pixabay)
January 30, 2018, 10:50 pm
Iran hackers reportedly tried to phish Israeli nuclear scientists
Emails sent to Israeli researchers contained links to news stories from a fake British media outlet, TV report says
By TOI staff
Mohammed Al-Zoari (Channel 2 screenshot)
December 17, 2016, 7:30 pm
Hamas blames Israel for killing its drone expert in Tunisia, vows revenge
The blood of Mohammed Al-Zoari, shot dead on Thursday, ‘will not be spilled in vain,’ terror group warns
By TOI staff and Avi Issacharoff
The Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on 24 July 1946. (US Department of Defense/Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2015, 8:51 am
The Israeli slowly poisoning herself to save us all from nuclear fallout
Professor Brenda Laster is so convinced her radical treatment might train the immune system to fight radiation’s effects, she’s taking it herself; other experts are far from persuaded
By Mitch Ginsburg
President Barack Obama speaks about the nuclear deal with Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
August 9, 2015, 3:36 am
Top US scientists pen letter in support of Iran deal
Signatories include renowned physicists, ex-officials, five Nobel laureates and designer of the first hydrogen bomb
By TOI staff
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Scientists there constructed a replica Iranian nuclear facility to better calculate Iran's capabilities. (Photo credit: US Geological Survey)
April 23, 2015, 10:43 am
In Tennessee, a mock Iranian nuke facility tests breakout time
US scientists provide information to negotiators on Tehran’s program, based on a replica, the New York Times reports
By Judah Ari Gross
US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (Photo credit: US Government/Public Domain)
February 21, 2015, 11:41 am
US energy secretary to join Iran nuclear talks
Kerry asks Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist by training, to attend this week’s round of negotiations in Geneva
By AFP
Actor John Heffernan poses with old photographs and a signature of Robert Oppenheimer, at a rehearsal studio in London. Heffernan is playing the part of Robert Oppenheimer in a new play the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing about the physicist, who led the team that developed the first nuclear weapon. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 28, 2015, 7:00 pm
Art embraces science in new British play ‘Oppenheimer’
‘They were fascinated with discovery,’ says playwright of his ‘torn’ protagonists, ‘but you put it in the real world, and suddenly hundreds of thousands are dead’
By Jill Lawless
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, visits a nuclear research facility in Tehran in February 2012 (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)
January 3, 2015, 7:12 pm
Iran claims it foiled Israeli hit on nuke scientist
Revolutionary Guard official doesn’t specify alleged target’s name or when the attack was thwarted
By Justin Jalil
Emergency response teams rush to the scene of a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces in the al-Muasalat area in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 6, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/AMC/Tamer al-Halabi)
November 9, 2014, 7:37 pm
Five nuclear scientists reported killed in Syria
Monitoring group says unknown assailants attacked bus north of Damascus; identity of victims still unclear
By AFP
September 30, 2014, 10:15 am
Iran accused of assassinating its own nuclear scientist
Ardeshir Hosseinpour’s sister says he was killed after refusing to help build nuke; Israel initially blamed in his death
By Spencer Ho
Heavy water reactor facility near Arak, Iran (photo credit: CC-BY nanking2010/Wikipedia/File)
March 17, 2013, 5:37 pm
Iran to try 18 for nuclear scientist deaths
Tehran has accused Israel, US and Britain of being behind the alleged assassinations of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, visits a nuclear research facility in Tehran in February 2012 (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)
August 15, 2012, 2:21 pm
Families of slain Iranian scientists sue Israel
Iran’s state TV aired purported confessions of 14 suspects in the killings of nuclear scientists
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz enrichment facility in 2008 (photo credit: www.president.ir)
August 6, 2012, 12:49 am
Iranian TV: Suspected assassins confess to killing nuclear scientists
Control room was in Tel Aviv, but orders were received from DC and London, report says
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, visits a nuclear research facility in Tehran in February 2012 (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)
June 17, 2012, 4:34 pm
Iran: 20 arrested in Israeli plot to assassinate nuclear experts
At least five scientists killed since 2010; Israel remains silent on accusations
Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in 2010 (photo credit: AP/IIPA, Ebrahim Norouzi)
June 14, 2012, 6:02 pm
Iran arrests suspects in deaths of nuclear scientists
Tehran points finger at ‘Western spy agencies’
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