(Washington Post) Joby Warrick and Peter Slevin - Recent disclosures have revealed that Libya was in the process of acquiring a large uranium enrichment plant that could have produced enough fuel for several nuclear bombs a year. "Libya would have needed to do relatively little to assemble and start the centrifuges," according to a study by the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington. Yet while Libya had managed to acquire a serviceable design for a nuclear warhead, the bomb depicted in the blueprints was too big to fit on any of the Scud-C missiles in its arsenal. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is overseeing the destruction of about 3,000 Libyan chemical bombs and warheads, a process due to be completed this week.
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