US pressures Taiwan to end quest for N-bomb
Saturday, June 16, 2007
TAIPEI: As Washington struggles to end nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, startling details have emerged from declassified US government documents regarding its success in halting Taiwan’s budding nuclear project in the 1970s. The recently declassified documents show the administrations of former US Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter placed heavy pressure on Taiwan to end its quest for sophisticated equipment that Washington feared would be used in the manufacture of a nuclear bomb. The pressure paid off - though not without setbacks - and the Taiwanese government abandoned its plans, according to the documents shown to The Associated Press. ap
You know, sometimes I wonder how the hell Hindustan and Pakistan got away with the nukes when every other month you get a newly declassified revelation of so and so nation was forced to abandon it’s nuclear activities. Last year, it was the South Koreans who admitted making nukes.