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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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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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.
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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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Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension.
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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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You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?
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The problem isn't that the INC was dishonest, per se. What it is, is that they were willing to believe anything bad about Saddam Hussein that could help their cause of regime change,
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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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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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sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.
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It's going up in front of our eyes.
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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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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.