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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I think what happened unfortunately is there is no policy in the U.S. government to allow these scientists to come to the U.S.. ... There is no plea-bargain policy.
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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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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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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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Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.
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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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North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.
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There may be less (to the deal) than meets the eye.
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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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Any weapons of mass destruction or the equipment to make them is unprotected, and given the looting, you have to assume that some of it has been taken away.
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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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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.