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...does America need new nukes? The Administration argues that the current arsenal consists largely of mammoth city-blasters that can't burrow underground where U.S. officials believe nations such as Iran and North Korea are assembling their own weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, Pentagon officials say, this arsenal is no longer an effective deterrent. Washington's enemies, they contend, calculate that the U.S. won't use its existing nuclear weapons because of the widespread carnage they would cause. But the new plans have their own detractors. They include nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says that even...
...some observers say the North has already concluded that it must have a nuclear arsenal, no matter what - meaning talks would merely be a stalling tactic to provide the North with cover to carry on N-bomb development. And although Washington has consistently expressed confidence that a diplomatic solution can be reached, its own motives are suspect. Bush has said he "loathes" Kim, and Republican hawks say they hate the idea of dickering with the North. The previous U.S. President, Bill Clinton, used economic blandishments to get North Korea to mothball its nuke program - but in October the North triggered...
...India via Kashmir. Nearly 18 months since the Taliban were defeated, Osama bin Laden?very possibly taking refuge in Pakistan?still eludes the Americans. Unilateral U.S. action against him within Pakistan is not inconceivable. As far as weapons of mass destruction are concerned, moreover, Pakistan is aware its nuclear arsenal is worrying many influential people in Washington, who argue it could end up in terrorist hands. When Musharraf said during the Iraq war that the U.S.'s next target could be Pakistan, he was giving early warning that if Washington felt threatened by elements that had found succor in Pakistan...
Saddam was not the only thing missing. For months before the war began, everyone from Bush on down argued that Saddam's arsenal of biological and chemical weapons was so dangerous that destroying it was worth a war. They laid claim to information so certain that Colin Powell was able to provide graphic details to a U.N. audience in February. Pentagon officials were confident that the quality of their intelligence would lead troops to the illicit stockpiles fairly quickly once U.S. boots were on Iraqi soil. Now they're adjusting the picture: the Pentagon says its soldiers are no more...
...however, likely to sharpen the agency's focus on a close U.S. ally - Pakistan. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the CIA is convinced that the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, played a key role in the development of North Korea's arsenal. Although President Pervez Musharraf stripped Khan, 67, from his post under intense U.S pressure two years ago, his company, A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, has free-lanced its services around the world with impunity. The State Department in March finally decided it had had enough and slapped sanctions on Khan's company...