David Albright Quotes (40 Quotes)

it's not at all like kind of the level of Pakistan by any means, but it's a concern that they are going around buying things illegally and the government can kind of say, 'Well, we are not really responsible because we sold this offer to a company that then goes out and does it and (the company) that is responsible.

Full economic sanctions almost work too well. They kill a lot of civilians, and nobody wants that.

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.

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.

We've been struggling to try to understand India's gas centrifuge program and one of the surprises there was that it's a program that really does depend on foreign procurement.

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.

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.

It would make sense if Iran got this. This is how the Khan network worked. They had stockpiles of these things in Dubai.

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.

when you go to a company in Germany you are going to tell them it is for the centrifuge program, which India knows as soon as they say that, unless the company is asleep, it's going to say no.

It's not a smoking gun, but it's the best evidence that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program.

You could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. It's a very irresponsible way to handle sensitive information.

Iran is taking extraordinary precautions to try to protect its nuclear assets.

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.

The evidence points to the need for a very tough discussion with Iraq, where they have to produce evidence that this chlorine was truly for civilian purposes, and I think they are going to have a tough time.

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.

can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.

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.

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

They are not going to steal explosives from a military base, ... They are going out and then going to a grocery store, a pharmacy, a medical supply store, and buying chemicals and then making them themselves. So it was a group that was being taught to be self-reliant.

It's a very dangerous game that Iraq plays if it chooses not to comply. The methods are very powerful that can be deployed by inspectors, particularly if they're backed up by information from intelligence agencies.

This video clearly gives the impression that Iran sees its nuclear program as a national treasure, that it's going to be very resistant to give up. It's not. It's a little bit like asking Britain to give up the crown jewels.

There is no plea bargain policy. I think there were people here in the bureaucracy that didn't want to make a deal. He was trapped.

That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system.

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.

In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India,

You worry that somehow this can become part of a chemical weapons program.

With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's bad news for China and Pakistan. This creates suspicion, which is what you don't want.

Thats historically been its position and thats one of the big unknowns, whether it will change its mind before the actual vote, but I dont see Russia going into this Board of Governors meeting and saying 'we dont want Iran to go to the Security Council' and making a big effort to stop it unless something else happens because I dont think Russia wants to put itself in opposition to the Europeans and the United States on this,

In terms of the chemical and biological weapons, Iraq has those now. How many, how could they deliver them I mean, these are the big questions.

Our first concern is the risk of nuclear terrorism, ... We worry about what could happen in Russia, Pakistan, India and China.

The program appears to have existed a long time and that is one of the things that has to give you pause is that they have been thinking about this for a long time.

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,

It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns in the air, ... These are people who are thinking through problems in how to cause destruction, for a well-thought-through political strategy.

That's not easy. The United States and Britain don't know where to find these people. There's no telephone book in Baghdad.

Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.

This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.

suspicions increase that Iraq was going to try to use it in a nuclear weapons program.

The trouble is that when they say they'll give it serious study, it doesn't mean they'll accept it.