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Although U.S. and allied intelligence services have broken up parts of the nuclear-parts trafficking network run by A.Q. Khan, creator of Pakistan's atomic bomb, Iran has constructed a new - and possibly larger - clandestine network for acquiring nuclear technology, according to a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a respected London-based think tank...
...Iran remains the most active customer in the nuclear black market, a customer that has built an equivalent if not even larger network than A.Q. Khan's," IISS proliferation specialist Mark Fitzpatrick told a gathering of reporters and proliferation experts in Washington Tuesday. The IISS study, Nuclear Black markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks, concludes that despite Khan having been placed under house arrest by the Pakistan government in 2004, elements of his supply network, which spanned three continents, remain active and dangerous...
...Washington will, however, be pleased by Sarkozy's pledge to call regimes in Russia, China and elsewhere to task over human rights concerns. The U.S. will also appreciate the more muscular stance against Iran's nuclear program advocated by Sarkozy, including possible bilateral sanctions that Chirac had excluded in favor of a collective United Nations approach. "The upside of Sarkozy having no unified international agenda is he can remain pragmatic and flexible - base decisions on practicality rather than deep principle," Reyni� says. "The downside is his domestic economic program does the same by favoring reform and market forces, but reserving...
...didn’t have very clean hands when we were going around telling the Iranians or anybody else, ‘Please don’t have nuclear weapons,’” Clinton said...
...Clinton also criticized the Defense Department for working in the last six years to create two new types of nuclear weapons while encouraging other countries to abandon their nuclear programs...