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Carlitos Brigante

(26,500 posts)
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:12 AM Oct 2021

KHAAAAAAAN!!!!!! is dead......

AQ Khan, father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and centre of proliferation scandal, dies


https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistan-nuclear-scientist-aq-khan-064416513.html

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Abdul Qadeer Khan, lionised at home as the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb despite admitting he was at the centre of a nuclear proliferation ring, died on Sunday at age 85.

The nuclear scientist was admitted to Khan Research Laboratories Hospital on Aug. 26 after testing positive for COVID-19 and was later moved to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, said the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.

"He was loved by our nation bec(ause) of his critical contribution in making us a nuclear weapon state," Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Twitter. "For the people of Pakistan he was a national icon."

But A.Q. Khan, no relation to the prime minister, also confessed to being at the core of an operation that sold nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya.

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KHAAAAAAAN!!!!!! is dead...... (Original Post) Carlitos Brigante Oct 2021 OP
geez you scared me... I thought Shatner died in space lol Takket Oct 2021 #1
Nah! I think he'll still be around for another 50-60 years. nt Carlitos Brigante Oct 2021 #2
After that... EYESORE 9001 Oct 2021 #4
The man caused more nuclear proliferation and destabilization than anyone.... paleotn Oct 2021 #3
Yup. Left a goddamn atrocious legacy behind. nt Carlitos Brigante Oct 2021 #5
He was a blight on our world for too long UpInArms Oct 2021 #6
Key figure in Bush's BCCI scandal. blm Oct 2021 #7

paleotn

(17,911 posts)
3. The man caused more nuclear proliferation and destabilization than anyone....
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:18 AM
Oct 2021

prior to North Korea developing the bomb. And the jury is still out on that. If a hell truly exists, he's in its lowest dungeon.

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