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Tracking Nuclear Ambitions |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Peter D. Zimmerman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,259 Words, 20,037 Characters |
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Six nations have nuclear weapons with launch capability. The United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, and China have well-developed nuclear arsenals, proven over decades of testing. Despite years of studied ambiguity, few doubt that Israel also possesses a nuclear arsenal. If rumors of French assistance are correct, it is possible that the Israelis have at least some knowledge of the construction of hydrogen bombs. Either way, Israel has never detonated a nuclear device on or under its own territory.
India exploded a single nuclear device in May 1974 and has refrained from full-scale experimentation since then. India contended its test device was for "peaceful" purposes, but the only functional differences between a "peaceful nuclear explosive device"--used for creating artifici...
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...lla is now a Russian one and has been rolled up and put away; there is the perception that the United States is increasingly unlikely to employ force to protect even its good friends unless its economic interests are directly threatened; and regional wars between regional nuclear powers--ethnic rivalries with nuclear arms in play--raise the risk that nuclear weapons will be used once again. vbcrlf
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