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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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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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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North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.
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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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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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There may be less (to the deal) than meets the eye.
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It's going up in front of our eyes.
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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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You worry that somehow this can become part of a chemical weapons program.
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And I think the Pentagon, particularly the hard-liners, suspended their analytical judgment in order to adopt some of these points of view and information.
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I think the administration is making a mistake by focusing on the aluminum tubes, because they're not a clear indicator of a nuclear weapons effort in Iraq.
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It could be that there is covert activity going on there. They design their buildings and design their activities knowing that they're being observed.
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I think the people would unite behind their leadership - even those critical of the leadership now. They would be willing to live under all kinds of hardship to battle an invader.