From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan

[dutchdemocrat]

From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD

Published: January 4, 2004


A brochure from Dr. Khan's laboratory, advertising technology used in centrifuges to make nuclear arms, was circulated to aspiring nuclear states and a network of middlemen. It was provided to The New York Times by the Institute for Science and International Security, in Washington.

The Pakistani leaders who denied for years that scientists at the country's secret A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories were peddling advanced nuclear technology must have been averting their eyes from a most conspicuous piece of evidence: the laboratory's own sales brochure, quietly circulated to aspiring nuclear weapons states and a network of nuclear middlemen around the world.

The cover bears an official-looking seal that says "Government of Pakistan" and a photograph of the father of the Pakistani bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan. It promotes components that were spinoffs from Pakistan's three-decade-long project to build a nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium, set in a drawing that bears a striking resemblance to a mushroom cloud.

In other nations, such sales would be strictly controlled. But Pakistan has always played by its own rules.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/international/04NUKE.html?th

[dutchdemocrat]

1. I cannot believe

I did not get one hit on this. Wow. I thought this is a very important work and does damage to BFEE.

Sometimes DU is like that I suppose...

Weird.

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2. dutchdemocrat

Per DU copyright rules
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[rman]

3. BCCI invloved

The BCCI Affair
A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate
By Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown
December 1992
102d Congress 2d Session Senate Print 102-140
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/

Appendix
Matters For Further Investigation
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/24appendic.htm

“There have been a number of matters which the Subcommittee has received some information on, but has not been able to investigate adequately, due such factors as lack of resources, lack of time, documents being withheld by foreign governments, and limited evidentiary sources or witnesses. Some of the main areas which deserve further investigation include:

1. The extent of BCCI's involvement in Pakistan's nuclear program.

As set forth in the chapter on BCCI in foreign countries, there is good reason to conclude that BCCI did finance Pakistan's nuclear program through the BCCI Foundation in Pakistan, as well as through BCCI-Canada in the Parvez case. However, details on BCCI's involvement remain unavailable. Further investigation is needed to understand the extent to which BCCI and Pakistan were able to evade U.S. and international nuclear non-proliferation regimes to acquire nuclear technologies.

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