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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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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sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.
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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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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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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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Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension.
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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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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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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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It's going up in front of our eyes.
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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.