Gaddafi offered Kazakhstan billions for nuclear arsenal

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi offered the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan “billions” in the early 1990s to retain its nuclear arsenal as the Muslim world’s “first atomic weapons,” a former Kazakh foreign minister and high-ranking UN official said on Thursday, RIA-Nocosti reports.
“At the start of 1992, the [Kazakh] Foreign Ministry received through diplomatic channels a letter to the president of Kazakhstan from the leader of the Libyan revolution, Muammar Gaddafi, proposing that he keep the country’s nuclear arsenal in the capacity of, as he wrote, the first Muslim atomic bombs,” RIA-Novosti quotes Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as saying at an international forum in the Kazakh capital of Astana.