pt. I. A surge into modernity: the nuclear programme 1957-2001. In the beginning was the atom bomb: nuclear power and the post-war world
Two centuries of loss: Iran at the advent of nuclear power
The peacock wants to strut: nuclear power under the Shah
Arms and the Shah: nuclear weapons under the Shah
Slow decline, quick fall: the end of the Shah's programme
Children of the revolution: a year of chaos, 1979
Restart all along, 1980-9
Iran's Islamic bomb? Nuclear weapons under the Islamic Republic
Restart for real: the programme goes live, 1980-2002
Prologue to the nuclear clash, 1980-97
Aghazadeh's mission: acceleration, 1997-2002
pt. II. The greater game: the Iranian nuclear crisis, 2002-12. Crisis, 2002-3
From Tehran to Paris and beyond, 2003-5
Enter Ahmadinejad: reversing into the future, 2002-5
Enter Obama: nuclear détente? 2008-10
The end of diplomacy? The non-diplomatic alternative, 2010-12
Appendixes : A. Stages of the nuclear fuel cycle ; B. Iran's nuclear power fuel cycle ; C. The nuclear weapons cycle.
