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Article: Iraq's peaceful atoms?
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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ADD IT TO THE LIST OF ironies of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: On the to-do list of the interim Iraqi government is building a nuclear research program. And the United States could end up helping. Rest assured, the program would serve only peaceful purposes, says Rashad Mandan Omar, Iraq's interim science and technology minister.
"We want to treat ailments like cancer. For that we need nuclear science," Omar told Agence France Presse (July 12). "But we are not going to have any false title for a project to conduct destructive research. That chapter is closed. It is finished. We are fed up of it."
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