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...time the second Bush Administration came into power, Negroponte thought he had left public service for good. Having finished his career with stints on the NSC and in the Philippines and Mexico, he had moved on to earn a great deal more money as a vice president for global markets at publisher McGraw-Hill. But his restlessness with corporate life led him to reach out to his old boss at the NSC, Colin Powell, and soon he was representing the U.S. at the U.N., working to persuade members of the necessity of war against Iraq. His U.N. tenure may soon...
...there was another explanation for the announcement: Pyongyang needed to change the subject. Two weeks ago, the White House secretly dispatched two National Security Council (NSC) aides to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul armed with evidence that North Korea may have supplied a uranium compound to Libya for its weapons labs. The gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track...
...Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. That means that North Korea may not have known where its UF6 was going when it sold it, says Gordon Flake, a North Korea analyst at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. The new UF6 evidence was apparently strong enough to help the two NSC aides, Michael Green and William Tobey, win an audience with Chinese President Hu Jintao two weeks ago. U.S. officials would not detail Hu's reaction to the briefing, but one told TIME, "It made an impression...
Where's Paul Nitze?" A U.S. intelligence expert complained to me a few months ago. "Where's our strategic plan? Where's the NSC-68 for the war on terror?" He was referring to the famous 1950 National Security Council memo in which Nitze, who died last week at the splendid age of 97, proposed a strategy for confronting the Soviet Union. But the expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy...
Paul Nitze's NSC-68 was a rigorous reaction to a perceived crisis. Communists had taken over Czechoslovakia in 1948 and China in 1949; the Soviets had exploded a nuclear bomb in 1949. NSC-68 was assembled over the winter of 1949-50, and it was a careful, comprehensive document, describing the precise nature of the threat and suggesting specific military, political and economic responses. "If there is similar thinking going on now with regard to Islamist terrorism, I am not aware of it," an intelligence expert told me. The Iraq-addled Bush White House has issued no marching orders...