Nuclear Know-How Trail

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The clandestine nuclear weapons activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan, better known as Dr. A.Q. Khan, have been known for some three decades to U.S. officials. Yet officials wants the world to think his activities weren't confirmed until October 2003 when Italian authorities seized a German ship carrying 1,000 centrifuges destined for Libya.

As the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Mr. Khan also assisted North Korea and Iran with their nuclear weapons development programs. Today, these countries are in a position to provide nuclear technology to terrorists that threaten the United States.

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Nuclear Know-How Trail

In the 1990s, my office at the Defense Department often sought to get the State Department to make diplomatic complaints to Pakistan about Dr. Khan's activities. His activities seriously violated multilateral agreement...

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