The targeted attacks showed Israel’s intelligence prowess, but a new generation of Iranian scientists could blunt the impact.

Israel’s tally of war damage it has wrought on Iran includes the targeted killings of at least 14 nuclear scientists and ...

Thousands of mourners thronged the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Saturday at a funeral procession for about 60 people ...

Crowds gathered in Tehran wearing all black and waving Iranian flags as the country held a funeral for top military ...

Communicating science effectively to the public can be as important as applying it. An IAEA project is training nuclear experts in 28 countries in Asia and the Pacific to engage secondary school ...

Deliberately targeting scientists in this way aims to disrupt Iran’s knowledge base and continuity in nuclear expertise.

At least 14 nuclear scientists are believed to be among those killed in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 2025, ostensibly to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program and ...

Israel kills nuclear scientists, strikes sites in Iran: Who did it target? Israel says attacks on nuclear sites, personnel aim to ‘roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival’.

Meanwhile, scientists working for the Egyptian, Iranian and Iraqi nuclear programs have been the most frequent targets since 1950. Since 2007 and prior to the current Israeli operation, 10 ...

Close to 100 scientists have been killed or abducted to stymie foreign nations’ nuclear programs since World War II. But the tactic has serious drawbacks as a means of countering proliferation.

In 2020, Iran blamed Israel for killing its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, with a remote-controlled machine gun. “It delayed the program but they still have a program.