India had been participating in discussion in Geneva on the CTBT through 1996, when it refused to continue, claiming the treaty discriminated against the countries with nuclear potential.
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Peres said David Ben-Gurion, the country's founder and first premier, " truly dreamed that the nuclear potential could serve Israel, not only in the area of security ."
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Now, this Egyptian discovery of Israel's nuclear potential is a bit like Claude Raines's shock in " Casablanca " at learning about gambling going on in the casino.
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But Egypt, the first Arab nation to make peace with the Jewish state in 1979, argues Israel's reputed nuclear potential is encouraging area nations to seek their own capability.
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The United States insists that is not the case, saying the defense aims to stop missile attacks by small states with nuclear potential such as Iran and North Korea.
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Speaking in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp . TV, Netanyahu said that if either Saddam Hussein or Iran developed a nuclear potential, the results would be " cataclysmic ."
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Kasuri told reporters that personal pleas by the Blair and U . S . President Bill Clinton showed the world community " does recognize that Pakistan has the nuclear potential ."
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He also said he regretted that " a wrong image of Pakistan's nuclear capability has been projected to the world " _ a reference to India's campaign against Pakistan's nuclear potential.
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Iran is making more progress at building up its chemical and biological warfare power _ and its missile strength and nuclear potential _ than any other nation in the developing world.
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And Pyongyang may balk on early cooperation with the energy agency to keep the West guessing about its nuclear potential and maintain leverage on the United States to keep its bargain.
