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Article: LAB PLAYS GLOBAL ROLE IN NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS

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July 8, 2009
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LIVERMORE, Calif., March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following newsletter:

By Lauren de Vore Newsline staff writer

We all recall the dramatic photos of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors standing on the giant calutron magnets partially buried in the desert as the extent of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program came to light following the first Gulf War (1990). While Iraq was successfully prevented from "going nuclear," the IAEA's verification activities typically operate far from the spotlight.

The IAEA was set up by the United Nations in 1957 to help nations ...

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