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288<strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Reset</strong>: Arms Reduction and Nonproliferation11 The actual safeguarding report has never been published. However,the Safeguards Statements can be found at the website of the IAEA:http://www.iaea.org.12 IAEA document GOV/2005/33.13 Based on media reports, Saudi Arabia has a nuclear energy research institute,an energy project laboratory, a 3 MW particle accelerator, a hotlaboratory, and other facilities and sufficiently qualified specialists. Withtoday’s black market for nuclear materials and technology and the country’senormous wealth, Saudi Arabia is now capable of quickly implementinga wide-scale nuclear program. (Yana Feldman and Mary Beth Nikitin,“Verifying Small Quantities: Saudi Arabia’s SQP,” Trust & Verify, no. 121[July-September 2005]: PP. 5-7; Charles Mahaffey and Yana Feldman,“Saudi Arabia’s National Security: What Role Could WMD Play?,”<strong>Nuclear</strong> Control, 9, no. 3-4 [2004]: PP. 65-75).14 IAEA, Annual Report 2008 (2009), P. 79.15 Ibid., PP. v, 10016 According to the Russian media, on Nov. 16, 2009, Russian Ministerof Energy Sergei Shmatko announced that the Bushehr nuclear powerplant would not be launched on schedule “for technical reasons.”17 IAEA document GOV/2003/40.18 IAEA, Annual Report 2008, P. 80.19 Document GOV/2009/74.20 Document GOV/2009/82.21 Document GOV/2010/10.22 Document GOV/2009/75.23 Document GOV/2009/45-GC(53)13.24 Renowned U.S. weapons nonproliferation and limitation experts FredMcGoldrick, Harold Bengelsdorf and Lawrence Scheinman believe thatthe U.S.-India agreement “was clearly motivated by and reflects the mutualinterests of both states in counterbalancing the rise of Chinese power.”(Fred McGoldrick, Harold Bengelsdorf, and Lawrence Scheinman,“The U.S.-India <strong>Nuclear</strong> Deal: Taking Stock,” Arms Control Today, 35, no.8 [October 2005]: PP. 6-12.)25 The search for a universally acceptable solution to the “third-party nation”problem that would strengthen rather than weaken the nonproliferationregime has been advocated by such U.S. experts as Ambassador ThomasGraham, who served as President Bill Clinton’s special representativefor arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament, and Avner Cohen,the Israeli author of Israel and the Bomb, who now works in the United