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Work Remains to Wrap Up Nuclear Network, Experts Say
U.S. nuclear nonproliferation experts said that more work is needed to wrap up the international nuclear network revealed early this year by top Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Christian Science Monitor reported today (see GSN, Oct. 25). “Overall, the Khan network is the biggest nonproliferation disaster of the nuclear age,” said Matthew Bunn, a nuclear expert at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. “It is certainly good news that at least the beginning of breaking up that network has occurred. Unfortunately, a substantial number of players in that network are still walking around free people.” Among those still potentially on the loose are unidentified businessmen who have the technical capabilities needed to produce components for uranium enrichment centrifuges, according to the Monitor. In addition, Khan and a number of his associates remain free in Pakistan, which has not provided either the United States or the International Atomic Energy Agency with direct access to them. While the United States has refrained from pressuring Pakistan to provide access to Khan, for fear of destabilizing an ally in the war on terrorism, experts said Washington could do more to have Pakistan allow IAEA inspectors to interview Khan. “For the U.S. to leverage [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf so the IAEA could talk to Khan, how does that destabilize Pakistan?” said David Albright, president of the Institute of Science and International Security in Washington (Faye Bowers, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 27).
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