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...Europeans will ask Iran to give up all uranium enrichment activities - permissible as part of its civilian energy program under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Tehran subscribes, but also the key component of any potential bomb program - in exchange for Western undertakings to supply and remove (spent) nuclear fuel. It will also offer trade deals, and possibly a light-water nuclear reactor (which can't produce bomb-grade material), and other unspecified sweeteners. Iran, which denies developing a bomb program but nonetheless insists on its right to develop the full range of nuclear energy infrastructure permissible under...
...Powell warned that Saddam had two key components for building a nuclear weapon--the expertise and a working design--and he was doing his best to obtain the third, nuclear material. Powell noted that Iraq had been aggressively trying to acquire aluminum tubes that could be used to enrich uranium...
...inducements and threats, reports emerged that Britain, France and Germany would offer Tehran new trade talks and access to Russian nuclear fuel, if the country halted its nuclear ambitions. Tehran appeared to reject the move. The Europeans had hoped their agreement with Iran last year to cease work on uranium enrichment - Tehran says it's for peaceful purposes - might lead to rapprochement. But "every time we went, there was another lie," says the diplomat. Meanwhile, buildings in Iraq full of equipment useful for making atomic bombs have been "systematically dismantled" since the U.S.-led invasion, according to a report...
...print. In a July 14, 2003 column in the Washington Post, Novak said that two unnamed administration sources had told him that Plame was involved in the CIA?s decision to send her husband to Africa in 2002 to investigate a tip that Iraq had tried to purchase enriched uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program. In early July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times accusing President Bush of relying on discredited intelligence when he cited the Niger-Iraq link in making the case for invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein. Novak suggested...
Even Russian security experts are alarmed by the nuclear material still floating around the region: nearly 600 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium under minimal security. A 2003 report by Harvard researchers concluded that under Bush's existing policies, Russia's excess stockpiles would be destroyed by 2018. Bush countered during the debate that he had increased funding for combatting nuclear proliferation by 35%. In fact, he has not increased that funding at all. The 35% boost was for safeguarding nuclear sites within...