] CIA Director George J. Tenet warned yesterday that the
] %u201Cdesire for nuclear weapons is on the upsurge%u201D
] among small countries, confronting the world with a new
] nuclear arms race that threatens to dismantle more than
] three decades of nonproliferation efforts.
] “THE ‘DOMINO theory’ of the 21st century may well be nuclear,”
] Tenet said in reference to the doctrine that led the United
] States militarily into Vietnam in the 1960s to try to prevent a
] communist takeover of Southeast Asia. “We have entered a new
] world of proliferation.”