Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons following U.S. and Israeli strikes, stating Tehran is afraid after feeling "the might of America and Israel."

French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized the importance for both Israel and Iran to uphold their recent ceasefire agreement, in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. “We share the same objective: that Iran must never acquire nuclear weapons.

How difficult is it in 2025 - 80 years after the Manhattan Project - for a nation to build a nuclear weapon? To find out, McClatchy News spoke with six nuclear proliferation experts. They described the process of constructing an atomic weapon as a complex operation that requires three major stages - some of which are substantially more challenging than others.