The declaration makes one mention of a bomb, referring to a "terminated radiation bomb project" in a section dealing with chemical weapons.

It also gives details of techniques used in the development of nuclear weapons - the kind of sensitive material the five nuclear powers on the UN Security Council did not want exposed to non-nuclear countries.

Experts from the UK, US, France, Russia and China are censoring potentially dangerous sections of the dossier before releasing a working version for wider distribution among the other members of the Security Council.

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