Non-proliferation officials in the Bush administration are on a roll. First, Iran agreed to allow tighter international inspections of its nuclear facilities, then Libyan leader Moammar Ghadaffi made a deal with Washington and London to give up his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes. Pakistan has also begun to clamp down in earnest on its freelancing scientists, who appear to have contributed to the Iranian, Libyan and North Korean nuclear weapon development programmes. Even the usually recalcitrant North Korea has got into the act, saying it might be willing to give up its entire nuclear programme in return for political and economic concessions -an offer US officials see as a starting point, but not likely to lead to any immediate breakthroughs.
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