Areva and the French government are also aggressively selling French nuclear know-how to other countries, especially China.

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The NPT offered non-nuclear weapon states all the know-how and most of the materials they needed to become nuclear armed, if only they promised not to do so.

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The road begins by admitting that if Iran acquires know-how to build a nuclear bomb, it won't be the first time the U.S. failed to prevent a developing country from becoming a nuclear state.

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This week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher responded to damning evidence that German companies have provided Iraq with equipment and know-how related to chemical, biological and nuclear weaponry.

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Pickering and Kampelman were no more convincing on the mechanics of eliminating all nuclear weapons, given the widespread availability of the relevant technology and know-how and the ease with which small arsenals could be concealed by dictators ruling closed societies.

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For India, as for Pakistan, that means no exporting know-how, no testing new weapons, but instead exploring ways to avoid stumbling inadvertently into nuclear war.

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