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Word: tarmiyah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They were playing an exasperating, and dangerous, shell game with calutrons, which are World War II-era devices to enrich uranium so that it can produce a nuclear explosive. The IAEA concluded after a May inspection that calutrons had been present and then removed from a nuclear site in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad. U.S. intelligence tracked the calutrons to the barracks and then to the Al Fallujah facility west of Baghdad, where the U.N. inspectors went last Friday -- only to find once again trucks carting equipment away. Several inspectors followed the 60-truck convoy in their car, taking pictures until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament: How to Hide an A-Bomb | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

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