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.
Jimmy Carter: “Any country possessing a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant can recover the plutonium needed to make an atomic bomb from…”
On the recordSeptember 24, 1976
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Remarks on Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in San Diego, California
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