New Details Emerge On Nk Nuclear Program
Arms Control Today › Vol. 36 Nbr. 10, December 2006
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Several weeks after North Korea's early October announcement that it had successfully tested a nuclear device, new information is emerging about the test and Pyongyang's plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. [...] after the most recent North Korean nuclear crisis started in October 2002, Pyongyang ejected the inspectors, announced its withdrawal from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, restarted the reactor, and claimed to have reprocessed the spent fuel to obtain plutonium.
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New Details Emerge On Nk Nuclear Program
Several weeks after North Korea's early October announcement that it had successfully tested a nuclear device, new information is emerging about the test and Pyongyang's plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. Still, much uncertainty remains about the status and scope of that program and a suspected North Korean uranium-enrichment program.
Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamo...See the full content of this document
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