Monday, March 14, 2005
American nuclear tests in the Sudan
Yes, my sense of humour leans ever so slightly to the absurd.
Jax
The Sudanese government had a nasty shock this week, when it read on a US Congress website that the Americans had conducted nuclear tests in the country.
Jax
The Sudanese government had a nasty shock this week, when it read on a US Congress website that the Americans had conducted nuclear tests in the country.
A House of Representatives committee report mentioned tests conducted in Sudan between 1962 and 1970.
However, when alarmed Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail raised it with US officials in Khartoum, it turned out to be a typing error.
The report should have said Sedan, a test site in the US state of Nevada.
"There is nothing that makes us so far doubt the explanations we have received from the US Administration," said Mr Ismail.
