Radioactive Gases Linked to North Korean Test

Sampling aircraft and ground-based collection sites have found two isotopes of xenon, indicating North Korea's Oct. 9 detonation probably was a nuclear weapon test. However, doubts remain. Despite Bush administration assertions that the device was a plutonium-based weapon, an official close to the...

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