Spanning over a period of more than five decades since its inception, Iran s nuclear programme is the most protracted civilian nuclear program in the world and one of the most politicized projects in Iran s history.

'Iran and the Nuclear Question' offers a historiographical portrait of Iran s early nuclear program under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Using declassified archival material, the book thematically chronicles the program s genesis, evolutionary trajectory, and devolution from the 1950s through to the 1970s. It also catalogues the Revolutionary Iran s early...