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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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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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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There may be less (to the deal) than meets the eye.
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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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North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.
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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.
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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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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 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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can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.
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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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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 don't think any of the available intelligence represents a smoking gun.