Kenneth Pollack told the Jewish Telegraph Agency (via Josh Marshal) that he is one of two US government officials (USGO-1) mentioned in the indictment against former Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. The relevant paragraph reads: On or about December 12, 2000 ROSEN and WEISSMAN met with a United States government official (USGO-1). Following …
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
by | 2005-08-29 | 4 Comments
The editors of Foreign Policy magazine “look back at at some of the persons, places and things that mattered most … and a few that never lived up to their billing.” The Number One Disappointment of the last 35 years? The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was supposed to keep the world’s nuclear …
His Own Private Idaho
by | 2005-08-28 | 3 Comments
I was really puzzled by this remark in Dafna Linzer’s WaPo story linking enriched uranium on Iranian centrifuges to contaminated Pakistani equipment, not a clandestine nuclear weapons program: “The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions,” said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of …
Musharraf On Khan & North Korea
by | 2005-08-26 | No Comments
Kyodo interviewed Pakistani CEO Perverz Musharraf, who confirmed that AQ Khan supplied North Korea with centrifuges and components. Musharraf also allowed the Khan may have provided uranium hexafluoride: Asked to comment on reports that Pakistan has told Japanese government officials that Khan gave about 20 centrifuges to North Korea, Musharraf said, “Yes, he passed centrifuges—parts …
