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U.S. chose wrong place for AMD - expert

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If the U.S. is concerned about Iran’s nuclear activities, it would be more logical to build AMD systems in Southern Europe, not in the Czech Republic and Poland.

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That's according to Aleksey Fenenko, a leading research fellow from the Institute of International Security Studies.

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