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Pakistan Fires Nuclear-Capable Short Range Missile Pakistan launched a short-range nuclear-capable missile, during military exercises. The nuclear-power nation has had the bomb since before India detonated a nuclear device and Pakistan test-fired one of its own in response. Pakistan poses a delicate problem for U.S. diplomats. On the one hand, Pakistan is an ally in the war on terror. And it has calmed the nuclear tensions that erupted between Pakistan and India. However, Pakistan may be a hiding place for…

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Congress

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