A U.S. man is facing charges of illegally exporting nuclear weapon triggers to Israel. Richard Kelly Smyth faces up to 105 years in a U.S. prison for selling about $60,000 worth of the devices. After 16 years as a fugitive, he was arrested in July in Spain.
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