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This is John Batchler, a conversation with colleague,

Andrea Stricker, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

nine names from what were given are the scientists, the nuclear weapons

scientists who were targeted, killed on the first day of attack by Israel against the

suspect nuclear weapons program. The career of these men, nine of them, and this is one,

just one of nine, and there are many more

names that will come forward. The career was built on making a weapon out of nuclear energy,

out of nuclear, out of ore, out of uranium ore, building a weapon. And this particular evidence

is everywhere in the background and the profile in the

connection of these nine men to building a nuclear weapon. Here's my question and Andrea's response

of just one of the nine, a weapon here. Much more of this later.

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