Though Egypt has long had the financial resources and technical expertise to build a reactor, at some time during the 1980s it all but suspended its nuclear program.

Though former President Hosni Mubarak in 2007 announced that his country would build power-generating reactors, progress in that direction appears to have been slow or non-existent. As a result, apart from some research laboratories, at present Egypt’s only nuclear facility is a single small reactor. It was provided by the Soviet Union during the 1950s and can only generate 2-5 kilowatts, which makes it all but irrelevant to the production of nuclear weapons. Egypt probably also has some ballistic missiles, but how many there are, and whether they can carry nuclear weapons, is not known.

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  Israel's Nuclear Program

  Israel’s nuclear program dates back to the early years of the state. Apart from scientific research, the program is almost entirely military in nature. © Copyright Notice Please contact us in case of omissions concerning copyright-protected work. ...
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  Iran's Nuclear Program

  Iran’s nuclear program dates back to the 1970s when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi decided that oil in the ground was better than dollars in the bank © Copyright Notice Please contact us in case of omissions concerning copyright-protected work. The a...
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  Iraq's Nuclear Program

  The Iraqi nuclear program dates back to the 1970s. The means by which Iraq tried to obtain nuclear weapons were diverse. In 1976, France sold Iraq a 40 megawatt test reactor called the Tammuz-1 reactor, or Osirak. The reactor was designed to run on highly...
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  Egypt's Nuclear Program

  Though Egypt has long had the financial resources and technical expertise to build a reactor, during the 1980s it all but suspended its nuclear program. © Copyright Notice Please contact us in case of omissions concerning copyright-protected work. The ...
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  Other Nuclear Programs

  Partly by way of a reaction to the above-described Israeli and Iranian programs, in recent years several other Middle Eastern countries have expressed interest in this question. © Copyright Notice Please contact us in case of omissions concerning copyright-protected ...
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  Political-Military Impact

  Looking back on the history of the Middle East, the political-military impact of the various nuclear programs, both the Israeli one (which according to all reports has borne fruit) and the rest (which have not yet done so) has been considerable. © Copyright ...