The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning that as many as 30 nations could soon develop nuclear weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei said more countries than ever are starting uranium enrichment programs or have the technology to do so.

• Mohamed ElBaradei: “We need to develop a new system of international approach or multinational approach to this (nuclear safeguards) so not to end up a capacity to develop nuclear weapons in a very short span of time.”

Last week North Korea became the ninth nuclear nation. It joined the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Pakistan, India and Israel. Israel has never acknowledged its nuclear program but it is widely believed to have about 200 with nine weapons state only but another 20 or 30 who will have nuclear weapons.