The country is not on the list of states with nuclear capacities such as the U.S. and Russia that are busy negotiating a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. Still, the Polish prime minister received an invitation to attend the April nuclear summit in Washington, DC.
As it turns out, Poland is among 44 countries included in an annex of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that lists states with nuclear power or research reactors. According to a former chairman of the Polish nuclear administration, the country is capable of building nuclear weaponry thanks to a research reactor active since the early 1970s that has given it enough fuel for ten or more bombs.
Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/03/26/poland-finds-nuke-material-hidden-behind-sofa/
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