Jimmy Carter actually said...

Any country possessing a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant can recover the plutonium needed to make an atomic bomb from the spent fuel rods of an atomic power reactor.

Context

Remarks on Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in San Diego, California

09/24/1976

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