Word: sokolski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missile arsenal? The question is hardly new, and scientists have been arguing back and forth for years whether China should be allowed to buy a whole array of items, from supercomputers and centrifuges to clean rooms and ground-positioning systems. "They don't just want our hardware," says Henry Sokolski, a former Bush proliferation specialist. "They want our know-how and know-why, so they can do it themselves...
...Washington soft-pedals its criticism when China, another appetizing market for the U.S., continues to sell ballistic-missile equipment to Pakistan, merely slapping Beijing on the wrist. An arms race has been raging in South Asia, and "the U.S. has not made much effort to control it," says Henry Sokolski, the Pentagon's top proliferation expert during the Bush Administration. Clinton's nonproliferation team wisely focuses on reducing the Russian stockpile and keeping loose nukes away from rogue states like Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Libya. The threat of a nuclear breakout in India or Pakistan is considered a back...