Brazil and weapons of mass destruction
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Based on Brazil's history, it is believed that the country has no or insignificant weapons of mass destruction.
In the beggining of year 2004, there was a international initiative to enlarge the inspection of the installations where the enrichment of uranium-238 is made, verifying if the process was not used for building nuclear weapons. Brazilian authorities has not allowed the inspection of the centrifugal machines, saying there was technological secrets involved.
Brazilian authorities said that, as Brazil is not part of any "evil-axis", the pressure for full access to inspection - even to universities - was an attempt to pirate industrial secrets. They also said that their tecnology is better than the USA and France, mainly because the axis is not mechanical, but eletromagnetic.
On the other side, some of the USA's authorities stated that a technique like this better (10x to 100x) is not very possible. They still believe the inspection should be made to guarantee there are no nuclear weapons being built.
A small number of brazilians feared this incident may be used by the USA's George W. Bush to make a war against Brazil, as happened on Iraq.