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Zach Nunn: “We can look at that. Basically, a facility that is converted, from my definition of conversion, would lose its ability…”

On the recordJune 26, 1996
We can look at that. Basically, a facility that is converted, from my definition of conversion, would lose its ability to have any kind of production capability. That would be my definition of conversion. If a facility were being assisted in terms of conversion by any of the funding here, it would certainly be my view that that facility should not continue to produce chemical weapons. But we have a long way to go in that regard. There is nothing that I know of that is taking place in that kind of conversion. There has been some conversion with the nuclear facilities, particularly missile fields and that kind of thing.
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Zach Nunn
Republican · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of facility conversion related to chemical and nuclear weapons.

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