Egypt Nuclear, Chemical and Missile Milestones – 1960-2000

1960: Egypt imports German engineers and scientists to help develop ballistic missiles. 1961: Egypt starts operation of a Soviet-supplied 2-megawatt research reactor at the Inshas Nuclear Research Center. 1963-67: Egypt…

Egypt’s Budding Nuclear Program

Argentina is building a nuclear reactor in Egypt that will give Cairo its first access to bomb quantities of fissile material, possibly enough plutonium to make one nuclear weapon per…