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...chlorine. It was July 12, 2003, in Washington, a beautiful summer day, and I had just come back from swimming. All morning I had been trying to reach I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for a cover story about both President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling...
...From the TIME Archive • A War on Wilson? Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection [7/17/2003...
...From the TIME Archive • A War on Wilson? Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection [7/17/2003...
...revenues of $13.5 billion and is owned by the French state, is a one-stop shop for nuclear energy with almost a one-third share of the market. Unlike its key competitors Westinghouse and General Electric, its activities span all aspects of the business: it mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; designs and constructs reactors and helps to operate them; it also recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste. Just last month, it announced a joint venture with Baltimore-based Constellation Energy to promote its new generation of nuclear plant in the U.S. and expects...
...interview with TIME in 2003, he explained how "thirty years ago not many countries could get the technology required to make a bomb. Now 30 to 40 can." He advocates strengthening the non-proliferation regime by restricting access to bomb-grade fuel and by banning the enrichment of uranium except under international supervision...