Round 12: Tossup 13
Note to Moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description Acceptable. After UN Security Council Resolution 1737 sanctioned this program, one leader declared “I am sorry for you who lost the opportunity for friendship.” Operation Rising Lion targeted this program amidst the “Twelve Day War.” Four zero-day flaws were used in the Stuxnet worm that attempted to stall this program in 2010. Until 2019, The J•C•P•O•A governed (*) inspections that examined this program’s progress. In June 2025, the United States bombed this program’s Fordow facility. Barack Obama signed a 2015 “deal” with Hassan Rouhani limiting this program. For 10 points, name this weapons program a Middle Eastern nation is allegedly pursuing to counter Israel. ■END■
ANSWER: Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program [accept descriptions of Iran developing a Nuclear Weapon; accept descriptions of Iran developing nuclear bombs or nuclear warheads or nukes; prompt on descriptions of developing weapons of mass destruction or WMDs on bombs or warheads or weapons until read with “what specific weapons were they developing?”; prompt on descriptions of nuclear enrichment with “for what purpose?”; prompt on descriptions of a Nuclear Program with “what specifically does the program seek to develop?”]
<Current Events, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 13 (Finals 1)
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