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A High-Risk Nuclear Stakeout The U.S. took too long to act, some experts say, letting a Pakistani scientist sell illicit technology well after it knew of his operation. By Douglas Frantz, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Nuclear warhead plans that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sold to Libya were more complete and detailed than previously disclosed, raising new concerns about the cost of Washington's watch-and-wait policy before Khan and his global black market were shut down last year. Two Western nuclear weapons specialists who have examined the top-secret designs say the hundreds of pages of engineering drawings and handwritten notes...

GENEVA (AP) - Iran must come clean about its nuclear program and submit to increased inspections by a global monitoring body, a U.S. official told an international conference Monday. "Despite professions of transparency and peaceful intent, Iran is going down the same path of denial and deception that handicapped international inspections in North Korea and Iraq," said John Wolf, U.S. assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation. "We have seen the pattern of cheat and retreat before - of begrudging compromises on process but obstinacy on real disclosure," Wolf said at the opening of a two-week meeting on the 1968 Nuclear...