Clinton Sees Need to Halt Spread of A-Arms Technology
At the end of his Thursday press conference, President-elect Bill Clinton voiced concern about the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology, citing the recent seizure of “six or seven pounds of enriched uranium” in Germany.
In the incident on Oct. 15, German authorities arrested seven suspected smugglers and seized 6.6 pounds of uranium from a car in a Munich parking lot. The uranium was at first thought to be enriched, or weapons grade, but subsequently was found to be either fuel pellets from a Soviet reactor or uranium oxide, a nuclear fuel freely available on the market.
No nuclear materials seized in the West so far could be made into a bomb.
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