We Stole Nuclear Technology-A.Q.Khan,Pakistan.

A nice drama was enacted when the world accused Pakistan of going Nuclear on the sly.

Instances were quoted where Pakistani Scientists working in Geneva stole information from there and in some case were arrested.

Pakistan was ,as usual , in the denial mode.

Unable to withstand the pressure, A.Q.Khan was placed under the so-called ‘house arrest’

Initially Khan had also denied about the Nuclear capability of Pakistan.

Now look at his statement.

He admits that they have attained nuclear status ‘within a record time’

Within the time frame he mentions it is not possible to  achieve the feat without stealing technology.

Note that he had come to Pakistan with’ rich experience’-read stolen technology.

After 15 years in Europe with invaluable experience in enrichment technology, I came to Pakistan in December 1975 and was given the task of producing nuclear weapons by then–prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. On Dec. 10, 1984, I informed Gen. Zia-ul-Haq that we could explode a device at a week’s notice, whenever he so desired. We achieved credible nuclear capacity by the second half of the ’80s, and the delivery system was perfected in the early ’90s. For a country that couldn’t produce bicycle chains to have become a nuclear and missile power within a short span—and in the teeth of Western opposition—was quite a feat…..

Don’t overlook the fact that no nuclear-capable country has been subjected to aggression or occupied, or had its borders redrawn. Had Iraq and Libya been nuclear powers, they wouldn’t have been destroyed in the way we have seen recently. If we had had nuclear capability before 1971, we would not have lost half of our country—present-day Bangladesh—after disgraceful defeat.