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Focuses on the U.S. and the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. How lines have blurred as nuclear technology has spread; Suggestion that the President George W. Bush administration has sent conflicting signals about what it will do if diplomacy fails to disarm Iran and North Korea; Reference to Israel, India and Pakistan and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Comments of analysts; Question of how far the Europeans are willing to let the Iranians go in developing a civilian nuclear capability that could be converted to military use; Outlook.

Reports that, roughly a year after Libya disarmed and Pakistan put Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under house arrest, the intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are still far from fully understanding Khan's atomic black market. Background on the rogue nuclear network led by Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb; How the inquiry into Khan's global enterprise has been hampered by discord between the U.S. President George W. Bush administration and the IAEA; Khan's role as mastermind of the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network in history; Concerns; Outlook. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed.