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| | USATODAY.com - Bomb material missing; is equipment gone, too? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Sometime after insurgents captured the Abkhazian capital, Sukhumi, driving Georgian scientists from the institute, its cache of highly enriched uranium the stuff of nuclear bombs vanished. |
 | | The Sukhumi complex's work historically focused on enriching uranium to the high levels needed for bombs, and the UN agency, responsible for guarding against the spread of nuclear weapons, wants to learn what equipment was there and whether it is still there, the source said. |
 | | In the 1940s and 1950s, with the aid of physicists from conquered Germany, Sukhumi scientists developed gaseous-diffusion and gas-centrifuge technologies, processes in which uranium isotopes are separated and enriched sufficiently to produce an atomic explosion. |
| www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/06/26/uranium.htm (941 words) |
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