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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...
...recent disclosure of North Korea’s secret program to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb is, in no uncertain terms, a threat to regional stability and world peace. North Korea clearly breached the terms of both the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which it signed in 1988, and the 1994 Framework Agreement with the U.S. It has unquestionably shown itself to be dangerous and untrustworthy...
...North Korea apparently figured it could obtain nukes another way: using the slower but more easily hidden method of enriching uranium to weapons grade in gas centrifuges--the same method some now accuse Saddam Hussein of pursuing. To accomplish that, the reclusive North Koreans needed to buy know-how and equipment abroad, including high-strength aluminum for the whirling centrifuges. By late July, the CIA had picked up enough tip-offs to conclude that Pyongyang was procuring banned supplies. By late summer, a Bush aide says, "things fell in place, and we could...
...invasion. (The Administration is considering a broad military occupation of Iraq much like the U.S. Army's presence in Japan after World War II.) But State Department intelligence officials remain unconvinced that high-strength aluminum tubes Baghdad has been trying to import are meant to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, as the CIA claims. The tubes, they argue, could just as easily be used to manufacture conventional arms...
...hail at Manas International Airport outside Bishkek. "Russian car" is the only explanation?and the only English?offered by the driver. Welcome to Kyrgyzstan, a country still recuperating from its 70-year stint as part of the U.S.S.R., when it was a top-secret site of weapons tests and uranium mines. Despite emerging as the Central Asian destination most welcoming to independent visitors, Kyrgyzstan remains seldom visited...