David Kay

David Kay led the UN inspection after the first Gulf War that uncovered the previously unknown Iraqi nuclear program and, after the most recent Gulf War, led the CIA's Iraq Survey Group that determined that there had been no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction at the time of the war. He is now a private consultant in Washington, DC.


Essays

Security

In the Tunnels of Natanz

| 02.23.10

The leader of the search for WMD in Iraq says weapons inspections will not stop Iran from going nuclear. The West doesn’t have the capacity or unity to make an effective inspection regime happen.

Security

The Iranian Fallout

| 09.09.08

As Iran draws frighteningly close to a full-blown nuclear capability, a former weapons inspector gives a hardheaded analysis of Tehran's program.

Commentary

Global Governance

As the Worm Turns

| 10.01.10

Who's behind the Stuxnet computer worm attacking Iran's nuclear program? The Israelis? The Russians? The Chinese?

Global Governance

The Bearer of Bad News on Iran

| 09.07.10

The latest IAEA report on Iran contains a mountain of bad news. Does the Obama administration have a plan for The Day After?

Economics

Bombs of August

| 08.19.10

Obama has become George W. Bush. By asserting that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable and jockying with the Israelis we are being led by the nose into war. The Israelis are using fear on Iran as a bargaining chip over settlements in Palestine.

Security

Nuclear Hero

| 07.29.10

The case of Iranian defector (or double agent) Shahram Amiri is an odd one indeed.

Security

Striking Iran

| 10.16.09

A former top weapons inspector says Iran is a nuclear-weapons capable state. A military threat must be real.

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