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Weapons of mass destruction this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book. A prominent israeli mp said yesterday that his countrys intelligence services knew claims that saddam hussein was capable of swiftly launching weapons of mass destruction. Since all pakistani bomb designs are implosiontype weapons, they will typically use between 1525 kg of u235 for their cores. Seen from this perspective, a syrian effort to achieve a break out by covertly developing nuclear weapons has a kind of logic.
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