And I think the Pentagon, particularly the hard-liners, suspended their analytical judgment in order to adopt some of these points of view and information. |
And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive? |
Any weapons of mass destruction or the equipment to make them is unprotected, and given the looting, you have to assume that some of it has been taken away. |
Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension. |
can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons. |
Even a terrorist group that's going to go to the trouble of working on a nuclear weapon wants to have some certainty that it's going to explode as a nuclear explosive and not just explode as a high explosive, |
Full economic sanctions almost work too well. They kill a lot of civilians, and nobody wants that. |
I don't see that they need anything more except knowledge and experience, and they'll get that by running the [enrichment] cascade. |
I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is that Germany is so determined to get these people. |
I don't think any of the available intelligence represents a smoking gun. |
I mean, if you think of Iraq, and the (Indian) company NEC, we know they were providing missile technology to Iraq in violation of the sanctions, and NEC is associated with the Indian military. It's not just a renegade company. |
I think the administration is making a mistake by focusing on the aluminum tubes, because they're not a clear indicator of a nuclear weapons effort in Iraq. |
I think the people would unite behind their leadership - even those critical of the leadership now. They would be willing to live under all kinds of hardship to battle an invader. |
I think what happened unfortunately is there is no policy in the U.S. government to allow these scientists to come to the U.S.. ... There is no plea-bargain policy. |
If you're not following up with regime change or diplomatic force to cause a change in Iran's behavior, you've probably just guaranteed they're going to get nuclear weapons faster. |