By Kenley Butler, Sammy Salama, Leonard S. Spector | Issue Article | November 1, 2006
“We busted the A. Q. Khan network,” President George W. Bush declared
in 2004. Yet, two years later, most of Khan’s accomplices remain free. And Henk
Slebos, one of Khan’s key European operatives, got off with a reduced sentence. The
message is clear: Let the punishment fit the crime-unless the crime happens to be trafficking
in nuclear technology.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 62 Issue 6
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Kenley Butler is executive officer and senior project manager at the Monterey Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation ... Read More
Sammy Salama is a senior Middle East research associate at CNS and the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program, and an adjunct ... Read More
Leonard S. Spector is deputy director of CNS and leads the center's Washington, D.C., Office. ... Read More

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