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Kent Conrad: “What we are trying to do is direct the attention of this administration and our colleagues to the very real threat that…”

On the recordApril 30, 1998
What we are trying to do is direct the attention of this administration and our colleagues to the very real threat that ``loose nukes'' present. And we are trying to take the words of General Habiger, who has said to us they have 7,000 to 12,000 of these tactical nuclear weapons and we ought to address that differential.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing a sense-of-the-Senate resolution regarding the threat of loose nuclear weapons.

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