Sentence examples for has a covert program from inspiring English sources

The United States also has a covert program to undermine Iran's nuclear program.

Such a resolution, expected to be passed Monday, is certain to disappoint the Bush administration, which is convinced that despite Iran's denials, it has a covert program to build nuclear bombs, not simply to produce energy.

North Korea admitted that it had a covert program to make highly enriched uranium for nuclear arms.

"Why would you have a covert program for filling weather balloons?" the official said.

So my experience in arms control over the years is that if anybody really wants to hide something they can, but the fact that there is an inspection regime forces them to do that, and then you have to ask the question: Is it worth that much to them that they are willing to give up the overt program in order to have a covert program.

The United States has undertaken a covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels — forces bombed by the Russians soon after they deployed their warplanes to Syria a year ago.

The president's statements are likely to bolster American contentions that North Korea has a covert uranium enrichment program and complicate the six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear program that are scheduled to resume next week.

Either way, the centerpiece of what had been a covert program is now in the hands of Iranian forces, which may share the captured technology with other countries.

American military officers have disclosed a covert program in the 80's that provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew the Iraqis would use chemical weapons.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — President Bush warned on Tuesday that Iran remained a threat despite an intelligence assessment that it had halted a covert program to develop nuclear weapons four years ago, as the administration struggled to save a diplomatic process now in disarray.

By mid-1979, the United States had started a covert program to assist the mujahideen.