Mr. HECKER: In almost all cases, the decision to go nuclear has been one of a regional security concern.
But more important, says Siegfried Hecker, are possible local conflicts that nations face.
This will create new issues for those companies in industries like logistics and construction where there is much interaction with officials, says Charles Hecker at Control Risks, an international risks consultancy.
His mother, Cynthia, has recently taken another lodger into their crowded home: a young man named Isaac Hecker who, like Henry, appears unsettled as to what manner of life he will lead.
It's a bargain that has remained largely intact for 35 years, says Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where much of the US' nuclear weapons research has taken place.
In a November 2010 report following his visit to Yongbyon, Mr Hecker said that based on what he saw, he believed North Korea could "resume all plutonium operations within approximately six months" at Yongbyon if so inclined.
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Before talk of a Syrian connection, an article in the March issue of Arms Control Today by Siegfried Hecker and William Liou listed the many ways North Korea's nuclear expertise could be of use to Iran, which also has suspect nuclear ambitions.
Mr. SIEGFRIED HECKER (Former Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory): The bottom line of the Non-Proliferation Treaty--in fact, of the proliferation world--I think, could be simply stated by the more fingers on the nuclear trigger, the more dangerous a world it is for everyone.
The group includes Sig Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Charles Pritchard, a former State Department pointman for North Korea who has been sharply critical of the Bush administration's Korean tactics since he left his diplomatic post last year.
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