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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Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension.
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It's going up in front of our eyes.
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it's not at all like kind of the level of Pakistan by any means, but it's a concern that they are going around buying things illegally and the government can kind of say, 'Well, we are not really responsible because we sold this offer to a company that then goes out and does it and (the company) that is responsible.
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And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?
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can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.
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That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system.
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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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There is no plea bargain policy. I think there were people here in the bureaucracy that didn't want to make a deal. He was trapped.
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You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?
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when you go to a company in Germany you are going to tell them it is for the centrifuge program, which India knows as soon as they say that, unless the company is asleep, it's going to say no.
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We've been struggling to try to understand India's gas centrifuge program and one of the surprises there was that it's a program that really does depend on foreign procurement.
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This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.
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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 program appears to have existed a long time and that is one of the things that has to give you pause is that they have been thinking about this for a long time.