The United States has been working to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani nuclear reactor, out of concern that it could be used to build an illicit nuclear device.

美国已从巴基斯坦转移了大量的高浓缩铀，毫无疑问，这些高浓缩铀将会被用于建造一个非法的核武器装置。

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But advocates for preventing nuclear proliferation say it highlights the risk that terrorists could obtain enough fuel to build a nuclear device.

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Experts including Duelfer and Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, believe Saddam has the sophisticated triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium.

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Ever since 1974, when India tested a supposedly peaceful nuclear device, it has had the technical wherewithal to build the bomb.

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