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Unraveling the A.Q.Khan and Future Proliferation Networks

AuteurD.Albright, C.Hinderstein, ISIS
4-02-7-10-08.pdf
Datummei 2005
Classificatie 4.02.7.10/08 (PAKISTAN - KHAN & NETWERK)
Opmerking Fist published in The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2005
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Uit de publicatie:

David Albright and Corey; Hinderstein

Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks

The most disturbing aspect of the international nuclear smuggling network headed 
by Abdul Qadeer Khan, widely viewed as the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, 
is how poorly the nuclear nonproliferation regime fared in exposing and stopping the 
network's operation. Khan, with the help of associates on four continents, managed to
 buy and sell key nuclear weapons capabilities for more than two decades while eluding 
the world's best intelligence agencies and nonproliferation institutions and 
organizations. Despite a wide range of hints and leads, the United States and its 
allies failed to thwart this network throughout the 1980s and 1990s as it sold the 
equipment and expertise needed to produce nuclear weapons to major U.S. enemies 
including Iran, Libya, and North Korea.
By 2000, U.S. intelligence had at least partially penetrated the network's operations, 
leading to many revelations and ultimately, in October 2003, the dramatic seizure of 
uranium-enrichment gas-centrifuge components bound for Libya's secret nuclear weapons 
program aboard the German-owned ship BBC China. Libya's subsequent renunciation of 
nuclear weapons led to further discoveries about the network's operations and the 
arrest of many of its key players, including Khan himself.

David Albright is president and Corey Hinderstein is deputy director of the Institute 
for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D. C. The authors 
gratefully acknowledge Joel Wit for his valuable contribution to the development of
this article.

© 2005 by The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
The Washington Qtuarterly • 28:2 pp. 111-128.
THE WASHINOTON QUARTERLY  SPRING 2005.