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The Times of London has just published details from a confidential Iranian document showing that the regime “is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.”

According the story, the document was produced by the military command structure, and describes “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion.”

The neutron source has no known use other than in a nuclear weapon.

Sky News reports that the document states “At present, our capabilities are reasonably good, although obviously not complete.” The report was written in 2007. If the story is true, the Iranian military is likely now further along in development.

Is this a smoking gun? Or is this a repeat of alleged WMDs in Iraq?

Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London… said: “Is this the smoking gun? That’s the question people should be asking. It looks like the smoking gun. This is smoking uranium.”

According to David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector who reviewed the document for the Times, "It looks bad -- there is no doubt about it."

You can read the full Times article here.