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...TIME: Some cite the fact that Iraq and North Korea maintained undetected nuclear programs during your tenure as head of the IAEA to question your ability to do the job. How do you respond...
...Still, it's not only Blix's more diplomatic style that might alarm the White House - there's also the fact that the Swede served as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1981-1997, during which time both Iraq and North Korea managed to pursue undetected nuclear weapons programs. Again, though, Blix counters that the IAEA is only as good as the intelligence provided by its member states, and if the U.S. and others weren't able to detect signs of such programs, neither could the IAEA. And, he says, the experience taught him that "not seeing...
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...
Jacques Baute, a French nuclear-weapons scientist, heads the separate team that searches out nukes. He can field more than 15 IAEA professionals from 11 countries, with possible help from 15 outside experts, who monitor all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle by looking for 40 specific components and analyzing soil and water samples, as well as checking on dual technologies, import-export controls and nuclear smuggling...
Sources: NASA, UNMOVIC, IAEA, Globalsecurity.org Federation of American Scientists, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Iraq Watch