(New York Times) David E. Sanger - In late 2009, the Obama administration leaned on Gaddafi to allow the removal from Libya of the remnants of the country's nuclear weapons program: casks of highly enriched uranium. In 2004, Libya turned over more than 4,000 centrifuges for producing enriched uranium, as well as blueprints for how to build a nuclear bomb. Gaddafi gave up thousands of shells filled with chemical weapons as part of the deal.
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