WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nuclear watchdog’s report that sophisticated warhead designs were found on the computers of Swiss smugglers has spurred fears in the Bush administration and elsewhere that atomic secrets may be quickly spreading. The report on Monday raised particular speculation over the significance of a U.S. intelligence finding last year that Iran had suspended a nuclear-weapons design program in 2003 — which slowed a Bush administration drive to confront Iran. If the Islamic Republic had access to detailed warhead designs on a nuclear black market, that could free it from having to develop its own blueprints for a weapons program. More
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