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...senior official at the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), speaking on background last week to The New York Times, confirmed that the Chinese government recruits a handful of students in the U.S. to gather information in disciplines like nuclear physics, in order to strengthen China’s weapons arsenal...
There's plenty of old evidence laying out Saddam's suspected arsenal of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons that has for years formed the bedrock of the case against Iraq. Inspectors who searched for eight years after the Gulf War left a well-documented file of banned items they were pretty sure existed but they couldn't find or couldn't prove were destroyed. Those are still missing and remain a central concern (see chart). But the trouble from the public relations perspective is precisely that that evidence is familiar and that it has already been judged by many...
...marks and complained that Iraq had shown no "genuine acceptance" of full disarmament. That played beautifully into the Administration's fundamental argument that even if inspectors had all the time in the world, they would never prove a match for Iraq's cunning efforts to conceal its illicit arsenal...
...WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR: Inspectors hope to find and destroy what remains of Saddam's chemical arsenal: 3.9 tons of VX nerve agent, some 550 mustard-gas shells and about 150 sarin-gas rockets. Also on their list: more than 3,000 tons of precursor chemical ingredients and any processing equipment Iraq could use to rebuild its arsenal...
...misusing its standing as the world's greatest military power? With our arsenal, we are in a position to issue a worldwide ultimatum: any use of weapons of mass destruction by a country would mean an immediate response by the U.S. that would result in complete destruction of that country. Why wouldn't this tactic work? I doubt that Iraq or North Korea or any other nation would choose a suicidal approach. The fact that this was the situation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the cold war might illustrate the idea's workability. ALEX G. COREY Weeki Wachee...