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Better know a non-nuke: Libya

Better know a non-nuke: Libya

Update: 2025-12-18
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In this episode of The Arms Control Primer, host Dr Alexander Bollfrass speaks with Dr Hassan Elbahtimy and Robert Kelley about Libya’s nuclear ambitions from 1969 to 2003, from foreign assistance and links to the A.Q. Khan network to the inspections that followed Muammar Gaddafi’s decision to abandon the programme and the lessons it holds for arms control and verification.


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Better know a non-nuke: Libya

Better know a non-nuke: Libya