Ex-leader says Brazil pursued A-bomb

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A former president said that the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for two decades tried to develop an atomic bomb, but he says the program was scrapped when an elected government assumed power in 1985.

The 1964-85 dictatorship was long suspected of seeking nuclear weapons, but ex-President Jose Sarney's comments Sunday were the first confirmation of the program.

Sarney, who led the first democratic civilian government after the dictatorship ended and previously denied the existence of the program, said he was informed that the military had dug a deep well for an eventual nuclear test explosion in a remote area of the northern state of Para.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/08/brazil.abomb.ap/index.html

Brazil?? BRAZIL?? A nuclear power?

Jeez man, just head to the beach at Rio and CHILL OUT...