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...sounds persuasive, but Washington doesn't have a flawless track record on making such intelligence allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration...
...TUWAITHA Iraq's nuclear-research program was based here until the IAEA removed all the facility's nuclear fuel and destroyed equipment directly tied to the weapons program. But Iraq continues to have natural and low-enriched uranium and has added structures to the site...
...some U.S. officials are right, Iraqi engineers and scientists are in a race with time. Deep underground in the Salman Pak, Samarra and Tuwaitha complexes near Baghdad, they are thought to be developing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and perfecting ways to deliver them. If so, they are not the only ones racing. Inside the headquarters of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency outside Washington, Pentagon mapmakers are reviewing satellite imagery pouring in from Iraq every day. They are updating the Digital Point Positioning Database, made up of computerized maps showing the coordinates of Saddam Hussein's key weapons facilities...
NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION. There have been no signs so far of radioactive contamination resulting from allied air attacks on Iraq's two nuclear reactors at Tuwaitha. Both are small research facilities, with modest amounts of nuclear material at their cores. The smaller of the two is a pint-size reactor of less than a megawatt. The larger puts out just five megawatts of power. Chernobyl was roughly a thousand times as powerful...
Iraq might have obtained nuclear arms by now if its relentless efforts had not been thwarted. In 1977 the country began installing a French Osirak-model nuclear reactor, ostensibly for research projects, at El-Tuwaitha, 10 1/2 miles southwest of Baghdad. Four years later, convinced that the reactor's real purpose was to produce plutonium to be chemically reprocessed and used for weapons, Israel bombed the facility to rubble...