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March 21, 2016

Japan to send plutonium cache to US this weekend
Tokyo (AFP) March 18, 2016
Japan will return a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to the United States starting this weekend as part of a bilateral storage deal, Greenpeace and other anti-nuclear campaigners said Friday. The stockpile, provided by the US, Britain and France decades ago for research purposes, has caused disquiet among anti-nuclear groups and neighbouring countries given Japan has the know-how to produce a nuclear weapon - even as it adamantly chooses not to. Some 331 kilogram ... read more

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