Rekindling debate on how close Libya actually came to acquiring a nuclear weapon, a private arms-control group says the Bush administration overstated the number of devices the country had for making uranium fuel. The group, the Institute for Science and International Security, said on Wednesday that the administration had given an inaccurate briefing to reporters last week at the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons lab in Tennessee. At that briefing, officials displayed a dozen uranium centrifuges from what they said was a cache of about 4,000 that Libya had obtained before agreeing in December to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. — (NYT)
