Posted on 26/12/02
Iraq showing unusual interest in Ukraine nuclear laboratory
KIEV -- It sits now, almost forgotten, in a downtrodden nuclear research institute in Eastern Ukraine: 75 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium. Enough material to construct three nuclear bombs.Not far from where the uranium is stored at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology is a fourth-floor office in a Soviet-style office block on Kharkiv's Leninsky Prospekt that happens to sport Iraqi flags on either side of the door. Western diplomats call it one of the clearest suggestions that Iraq wishes to build a nuclear weapon.
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