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...project as well as the uranium program - which had become the stuff of bitter controversy during the presidency of George W. Bush. Career State Department officials were hesitant to confront the North with the intelligence in the fall of 2002 that there was a program for highly enriched uranium (HEU), while Bush Administration officials, such as John Bolton - one of the so-called neocons, then serving as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs - wanted to use it (and did) as "the hammer I had been looking for to shatter" the nuclear deal done by the Clinton...
...talk directly with Kim & Co. in order to arrive at a deal. That's still likely to be the case - even if the diplomatic nuclear brief just got a bit more complicated - and Stephen Bosworth, Obama's special envoy to the North, was purposefully bland in reacting to the HEU announcement from Pyongyang. "Obviously, anything the North is doing in the area of nuclear development is of concern to us," he said after meetings in Beijing. Coincidentally - or not - the Deputy Foreign Minister of North Korea has just returned from his own meetings in Beijing. A leading North Korea watcher...
...says stopped years before.) But while asserting that Iran may no longer have a weapons program, the new report also stresses that Iran is continuing to try to develop the technique to enrich uranium on a massive scale and that it could, theoretically, manufacture enough highly enriched uranium, or HEU, to build a bomb "during the 2010-15 time frame." (Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes to use in energy production and does not intend to make any HEU; the NIE says it cannot assess Iran's ultimate intentions...
Bunn said Russia's depressed economy, combined with theft and corruption, results in serious risks that plutonium or HEU could fall into "the wrong hands...
Bunn also recommends the HEU be mixed with low-grade uranium which, while making the uranium unusable in bombs, would still be useful as power-reactor fuel...