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Unraveling the A.Q.Khan and Future Proliferation Networks
Auteur | D.Albright, C.Hinderstein, ISIS |
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Datum | mei 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.