Intelligence report claims nuclear market thriving

It is also a wake-up call to EU governments, spy agencies and customs officials struggling to keep the ingredients for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) out of the hands of some of the most unsavoury regimes in the Middle East and the far east.

While the Pakistani bomb project has long been realised, Iran’s nuclear ambitions are not as advanced and have the makings of an international crisis. So it is not surprising that much of the document focuses on Iranian activities – not only in the nuclear field, but in bio-chemical and conventional weapons, notably its “very ambitious” missile programmes.

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