U.S. Seeking Other Customers of Nuclear Network, Bolton Says

The United States is working to track down other countries that may have obtained nuclear technology through the international network orchestrated by top Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said yesterday (see GSN, April 19).

Earlier this year, Khan confessed to having provided nuclear technologies to Iran, Libya and North Korea. During a press conference at the United Nations yesterday, Bolton said the United States is “very interested” in learning if Khan provided technology to other countries as well (see GSN, April 27).

“There’s a lot of information that we don’t necessarily have corroboration for. … There’s more out there than we can discuss publicly,” Bolton said. “It’s one of the reasons why the depth of our concern about the international black market in weapons of mass destruction and related materials is as substantial as it is,” he added (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 28).

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