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...weapons of mass destruction, North Korea admitted it had for several years been conducting a clandestine program to develop nukes. Washington said the revelation came earlier this month, after Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly presented evidence in Pyongyang that North Korea had a program to enrich uranium - which is a prerequisite for nuclear weapons. Confronted with the proof, North Korean officials conceded they had "nullified" a 1994 deal with the U.S. to stop developing such warheads. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he believed Pyongyang had a "small number" of nukes. But North Korea has not admitted to making...
...afraid our entire stockpile of enriched uranium has mildewed...
NUCLEAR By 1998, Iraq's nuclear program had been successfully dismantled. Since then, it has rebuilt facilities and equipment, worked on producing enriched uranium and shopped the black market...
...estimate it would take to inoculate the entire country against smallpox 300 people could die from reactions to the vaccine if everyone were inoculated 60% of Indonesia's 4 million civil servants are unqualified for their jobs, says the country's administrative reforms minister 15 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium was seized on Saturday by Turkish police in a province near the Syrian and Iraqi borders 23% of workers surveyed think news is the most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar...
...Nuclear Weapons: Iraq is still trying to acquire "technology and materials which could be used in the production of nuclear weapons," and has "sought to buy significant quantities of uranium from Africa, despite having no active civil nuclear power program that could require such material." Baghdad also retains a large corps of experienced personnel now at work on building nukes...