nuclear weapon
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The most threatening stockpile is almost 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, which without further enrichment could be used to make a crude nuclear weapon.
US allies France and Britain also have established nuclear arsenals on a smaller scale, while India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have known nuclear weapons but are not part of international agreements.
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Those include short-range tactical nuclear weapons that aren’t covered by any treaty.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with a high-level briefing on the allegations, reported that Zhang has been accused of leaking information about China's nuclear weapons programme to the United States.
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"Because when you look at intelligence, nuclear weapons, and so on, we depend on the US," she said at Sciences Po university.
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