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ElBaradei accuses US of violating NPT

IRNA

2003/08/26

Berlin, Aug 26, IRNA -- The head of the United Nations watchdog agency
accused the United States of violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation 
Treaty (NPT) as a result of Washington`s secret efforts to develop 
so-called `mini-nukes` -- nuclear weapons with an explosive force of 
less than five kilotons of TNT. 
"The US government demands other states not to own nuclear 
weapons. On the other hand it is prefecting its own arsenal," 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohammad ElBaradei 
said Tuesday in an interview with the weekly Stern magazine, due to 
hit the newsstands on Thursday. 
"I don`t believe it complies with the treaty which it (US) 
signed," he added. 
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly said it wanted
to study the feasibility of small, `low-yield` nuclear weapons. 
However international critics have warned that such an action would 
spark a new arms race. 
OT/AH/210 
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