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September 18, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115255.html

Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb Gave Know-How to Iran

[Ha'aretz] Yossi Melman - Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb and the world's leading proliferator of nuclear know-how, recently granted an interview to a Pakistan television station: After India exploded a nuclear device in 1974, then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto charged him with the secret task of developing nuclear weapons. When Iran has a nuclear bomb, it will be mainly thanks to Khan. "Iran was interested in obtaining nuclear technology. And because Iran is an important Islamic country, we wanted it to have the technology. The Western countries pressured us on this issue, and it wasn't fair. If Iran can have nuclear technology, we will have a strong regional bloc that will repel international pressures. Iran's nuclear capability will neutralize Israel's power." The conclusion that emerges from the interview is that a country determined to obtain nuclear weapons will do so, even if it has poor technological infrastructure. There are enough suppliers who will secretly provide what is required. It is not overly expensive to produce nuclear weapons.

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