Nuclear Program
Libya signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in July 1968, under King Idris, ratified it in 1975 under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and concluded a safeguards agreement in 1980. In 1981, the Soviet Union supplied a 10 MW research reactor at Tajura. Colonel Gaddafi began to look at the illicit nuclear proliferation networks and various black market sources, including Swiss nuclear engineer Friedrich Tinner.
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