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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 Pakistans 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.
Takket
(21,563 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,500 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)hell hop aboard the Nexus for a few eons.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)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.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,500 posts)UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Unfortunately, we cannot unring that bell.