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placed the nuclear program back under civilian control. The program was also abandoned because Argentina did not have bad relations with Brazil, and because Brazil was wealthier than Argentina and thus more advantaged in an arms race.
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estimated that Argentina could build a nuclear bomb from its civilian nuclear program. Government officials at the time confirmed, in November 1983, that research carried out at the
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By JOHN J FIALKA And GERALD F SEIB Staff Reporters of THE WALL,STREET JOURNAL. "Argentina's Nuclear-Weapon Capability is Estimated to be Closer than Thought."
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as a non-nuclear weapon state. Argentina continues to use nuclear power in non-military roles, and is noted as an exporter of civilian use
685:(ABACC) to verify both countries' pledges to use nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes. On February 10, 1995, Argentina acceded to the 450: 358: 353: 1139: 378: 363: 323: 313: 308: 408: 490: 223: 1439: 1203: 333: 318: 233: 1263: 393: 338: 303: 258: 213: 208: 1122: 740: 630: 388: 373: 343: 328: 298: 278: 253: 238: 228: 1319: 1039: 972: 929: 884: 835: 803: 776: 383: 293: 288: 263: 248: 243: 642: 483: 471: 273: 268: 38: 1394: 1258: 1399: 17: 1444: 1359: 1354: 670: 658: 612: 561: 347: 1389: 137: 1369: 1339: 1334: 1226: 626: 511: 283: 1434: 1273: 1268: 674: 1349: 1344: 1329: 1314: 585: 424: 1324: 872: 1296: 678: 637:. International concern over the possibility of an Argentine nuclear weapons program magnified after the 589: 434: 1019: 1175: 723: 536: 152: 1020:"3 the Varieties of Hedgers: India, Japan, West Germany, Brazil and Argentina, Sweden and Switzerland" 707:
In accord with three presidential decrees of 1960, 1962 and 1963, Argentina supplied about 90 tons of
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administration under pressure from the United States government and due to a lack of funds in 1990.
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Robert E. Dundervill, Jr.; Peter F. Gerity; Anthony K. Hyder; Lawrence H. Luessen (9 March 2013).
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The Third Review of the Biological Weapons Convention: Issues and Proposals : UNIDIR/91/17
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program in the early 1980s, but this was abolished when democracy was restored in 1983.
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Arms Control: The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements with New CD-ROM Supplement
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In 2010, the government announced that it would start working in the creation of a
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The Woodrow Wilson Center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
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Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials
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Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations (1974).
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Joseph Cirincione; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (December 2011).
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Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
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Deadly arsenals : nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
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Promete Garré que se construirá un submarino nuclear en el país
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Cirincione, Joseph; Jon B. Wolfsthal; Miriam Rajkumar (2005).
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ratified a bilateral inspection agreement that created the
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Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats
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Conference on Brazilian and Argentine Nuclear Programs
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Index

Alacrán missile
Argentine Republic
Location of Argentine Republic
megatonnage
NPT
Weapons of mass destruction

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