NBC Weapons: May 31, 2001

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Chinese officials, worried after the Tiananmen Square incident that "military factions" could get control of some nuclear weapons, quietly asked the US for help in developing Permissive Action Links (PALs), the locks that prevent nuclear weapons from exploding. The US reportedly refused to share the technology.--Stephen V Cole

 

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