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Were Libyas Nuclear Capabilities Exaggerated for Political Effect?

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Were Libyas Nuclear Capabilities Exaggerated for Political Effect?

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It appears that in the eagerness to take credit for Libya’s WMD disarmament as a validation of their policy of preemption, some Bush administration officials may have exaggerated the true extent and potential of Libya’s nuclear program. On March 15, 2004 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, American officials displayed 55,000 pounds of nuclear equipment and components, and more than 4,000 centrifuges that were removed from Libya two months earlier in January. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham proclaimed the surrender of Libya’s nuclear equipment as a “big, big victory” for nonproliferation, claiming that it constituted “the largest recovery, by weight, ever conducted under U.S. nonproliferation efforts.” Another administration official stated, “A year ago it would have been hard to imagine we would be sitting here in a parking lot in Tennessee looking at centrifuge from the Libyan nuclear weapons program. A year ago Libya did not admit to having a weapons program.” A Republican congressman from Ten

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