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Chemical weapons in Albania left over from the country’s former Communist government will be destroyed next year under a program started by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. It marks the first expansion of the non-proliferation program outside the former Soviet Union. The Bush administration formally approved the use of $20 million to pay for the elimination of 16 tons of the chemicals. The money is part of the Nunn-Lugar program, created 13 years ago by Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., as a way to speed up the destruction of nuclear, chemical and biological and other weapons in former Soviet republics. “The original Nunn-Lugar bill was concerned with the former Soviet Union because that is where the vast majority of weapons and materials of mass destruction were,” Lugar said. “Today we must be prepared with money and expertise to extend the Nunn-Lugar concept wherever it can be usefully applied.” Under the non-proliferation program, 6,300 nuclear warheads have been destroyed, as well as hundreds of ICBMs, nuclear air-to-surface missiles, submarine missile launchers, nuclear submarines, bombers and nuclear test tunnels. Since its beginning, the Nunn-Lugar program has spent about $5 billion. “Russia will continue to be a major focus,” Lugar said of the expanded program, “but emerging risks must also be addressed in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere.” |
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