David Albright
David Albright
David Albright, M.Sc., is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security, its current president, and author of several books on proliferation of atomic weapons. Albright holds a Master of Science in physics from Indiana University and a M.Sc. in mathematics from Wright State University. He has taught physics at George Mason University in Virginia...
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What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.
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The problem isn't that the INC was dishonest, per se. What it is, is that they were willing to believe anything bad about Saddam Hussein that could help their cause of regime change,
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In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India,
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I mean, if you think of Iraq, and the (Indian) company NEC, we know they were providing missile technology to Iraq in violation of the sanctions, and NEC is associated with the Indian military. It's not just a renegade company.
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can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.
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I don't think any of the available intelligence represents a smoking gun.
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That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.
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It's a little like a sophisticated engine in a race car. If you develop it, you don't go out and race the next day. You have to test it. They have to do a bunch of work to demonstrate that it will work reliably.
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sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.
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It's going up in front of our eyes.
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They are not going to steal explosives from a military base, ... They are going out and then going to a grocery store, a pharmacy, a medical supply store, and buying chemicals and then making them themselves. So it was a group that was being taught to be self-reliant.
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You could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. It's a very irresponsible way to handle sensitive information.
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The trouble is that when they say they'll give it serious study, it doesn't mean they'll accept it.
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The IAEA... won't know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret.