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...reason Western governments are determined to deal with the threat from Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is only a few years away from developing nuclear weapons and accurate medium-range missiles to deliver them. The British TV network Channel 4 reported last week that Baghdad may have discovered uranium in northeastern Iraq and may already be operating an enrichment plant there. If the report is true, Saddam is poised to develop a nuclear weapon sooner than most experts have predicted...
Pakistan's leaders routinely pledge that the country is not building the Bomb. In fact, it began pursuing nuclear arms in earnest after its neighbor and rival, India, exploded a test device in 1974. Pakistan has been producing weapons-grade uranium since 1986. Most analysts have been convinced for several years that the country has had on hand all the components necessary to make bombs. Last year Pakistan tested two new ballistic missiles. Leonard S. Spector, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, estimates that Pakistan's arsenal could contain up to 10 bombs of about...
...White House has apparently drawn the same conclusion. "Pakistan has gone past the line used by Congress and the Administration to define possession," says a senior U.S. diplomat. "They keep saying one thing and doing another and getting caught." Spector believes that the threshold Pakistan crossed was turning enriched uranium into metal cores needed for bombs, which it did last summer...
...government announced that it was able to produce uranium enriched enough to fuel power reactors. The program was, of course, "exclusively peaceful." Brazil signed cooperation agreements on nuclear technology with Iraq in 1981 and China in 1984. Until their return two weeks ago, 21 Brazilian rocketry engineers had spent 18 months in Iraq working to improve Baghdad's missiles...
...dust they raise. These forces would be vulnerable to F-16s, Saudi and British Tornados, and possibly F-111s now on station in Turkey, carrying 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs and Maverick missiles. Armored, low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts would riddle the tanks with armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs from rapid-fire guns...