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Robert C. Byrd: “The threat posed by the dissemination of design details of nuclear weapons is twofold: It will become easier for…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1979
The threat posed by the dissemination of design details of nuclear weapons is twofold: It will become easier for governments aspiring to a nuclear weapons capability to accomplish this end, with a consequent increase in the risk of nuclear war in the world; and it will be easier for nuclear terrorists here and abroad to make a credible nuclear threat.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Sep 24, 1979

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Discussing the publication of nuclear weapon design details by the press.

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