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...military has issued a "Prepare to Deploy" order as Iran disregards demands to stop enriching uranium. But most readers blamed escalating tensions on a trigger-happy U.S. Administration...
This history is pretty clear, but what happens next, less so. The North complied with its obligations to freeze its nuclear program but later began to cheat by secretly receiving components for a gas-centrifuge uranium-enrichment facility from Pakistan. The Clinton Administration planned to take up the matter with the North, but time...
...nuclear weapons was still somewhere in North Korea, but no more had been separated. The entire plutonium-production program was frozen and under International Atomic Energy Agency inspection; and the other elements of the framework were on track. The problem was the secret North Korean effort to enrich uranium for a nuclear-weapons program. The Bush Administration's approach to the problem quickly took shape when it confronted Pyongyang with the knowledge of the secret program and the demand that the North give it up before any further negotiations could take place. When Pyongyang refused, the U.S. abandoned the Agreed...
...complex, difficult endeavor--one that is hardly guaranteed success. To this day, there are questions about the origins of the material that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan sold to Libya. Among the material that Libya turned over after it abandoned its program was a precursor to highly enriched uranium--uranium hexafluoride. U.S. intelligence agencies believed it came from North Korea but spent months trying to prove it. They still haven...
...Iran continues to enrich uranium, the U.S. military has issued a "Prepare to Deploy" order. Most U.S. readers blamed escalating tensions on a trigger-happy Administration at home...