Diagrams from an Iranian computer believed to show components of a nuclear bomb will be the main evidence of the United States at the United Nations Security Council to push for action against Tehran's nuclear programme, a media report said.
The laptop, purportedly 'purloined' from an Iranian nuclear engineer, was obtained by CIA in 2004. It contains documents and diagrams, that American officials insist is strong material, Time magazine reported.
The computer also contains a Farsi-language PowerPoint presentation with 'catchy graphics', that will further bolster the arguments of US officials, the magazine said.
'Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but US officials say the design of the sphere - an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass - is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II', it said.
American officials will show the material to UNSC members to push their case for the need for UN action against Iran, the report said. The Council could meet after Monday's International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna.
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