Moreover, Ahmadinejad openly advocates Iran s crash program to obtain nuclear weapons.

In exchange, France would provide the nuclear reactor as the basis for the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

If the North abandons its nuclear weapons program, many benefits can be gained.

North Korea s nuclear weapons program has been a matter of concern for two decades.

First, there is ad hoc diplomacy, which succeeded in eliminating Libya s nuclear program and closing North Korea s nuclear weapons production reactor.

No one can say for sure that Iran s regime has formally adopted a nuclear weapons program.

Iran s suspected nuclear weapons program has now raised new fears that the global nonproliferation regime may unravel.

But the IAEA has no authority to determine whether or not a country has a nuclear weapons program.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il s fondness for Hollywood movies is unlikely to affect his nuclear weapons program.

Beyond the ambiguities and limitations of the six month agreement, the negotiations have clearly exposed Iran s nuclear weapons program and, more broadly, its understanding that nuclear weapons remain a geostrategic status symbol.

Another CIA report from 1968 states that ...Israel might undertake a nuclear weapons program in the next several years.

The various initiatives for nuclear disarmament are intended to build a new consensus on renunciation of nuclear weapons, which in turn would isolate and pressure Iran on its nuclear program.

But there is a notable exception to this pattern Libya s decision in December 2003 to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Instead, it has developed a nuclear weapons program that threatens stability in the region and places a heavy burden on its economy.

After all, North Korea s reaction to the Bush administration s policies was to drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, restart its nuclear program, and further develop its weapons production.

They should insist on transparency in Iran s nuclear program, while offering a gradual easing of sanctions in exchange for verifiable guarantees that the regime is not pursuing nuclear weapons.

Chemical weapons program Egypt's chemical weapons program is the most developed of its pursuit of developing a Weapons of Mass Destruction program though it is thought this reached its peak in the 1960s.

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A regular supplier of uranium for China s extensive nuclear weapons program (while overlooking its record of facilitating Pakistan s clandestine weapons development), Australia nonetheless justifies its stance on the grounds of India s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Nuclear weapons India has been in possession of nuclear weapons since 1974.

In early 2003, its onsite presence in Iraq established that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapons program, contrary to the Bush administration s representations.

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The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency has verified that there has been no diversion of Iran s civil nuclear program to weapons development.

Turkey s position on Iran s nuclear program has been similarly clear we are categorically opposed to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in our region.

The US, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and China all NPT signatories possess nine tenths of the world s nuclear weapons, while India, Pakistan, and probably Israel possess around 1,000. North Korea presumably has a few, and Iran is most likely pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

After consultation with his staff, Bush responded that, absent a plutonium extraction facility, US intelligence could not confirm that the plant comprised a nuclear weapons program.

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Iran, of course, repeatedly asserts its commitment to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but its past relations with Dr. A. Q. Khan the self proclaimed godfather of Pakistan s nuclear weapons program, and the world s most notorious nuclear proliferator invites skepticism.

improvements in nuclear weapons by some nuclear weapon states.

After all, Iraq was an easy target in the first Gulf War precisely because it had abandoned its nuclear program, and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.

And, of course, he backs Iran s nuclear program.

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After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq once again embarrassed the IAEA, when inspectors uncovered a major covert nuclear weapons program. In 2003, Libya s renunciation of its secret weapons revealed how another country had hoodwinked the Agency.

To overcome its economic deficiencies and attain social stability, the North has no choice but to abandon its nuclear weapons program and move toward reform and greater openness.

The most promising approach might be sanctions against leading personalities, and against transfers of technology and funding, as well as covert operations, to delay Iran s nuclear weapons program.

Tactical nuclear weapons were a large part of the peak nuclear weapons stockpile levels during the Cold War.