China gifted 50 kg uranium for two bombs to Pakistan

[InfiniteThoughts]

Source: The Economic Times

China’s dirty little secret of nuclear proliferation to Pakistan, including virtually giving Islamabad two nuclear weapons on a platter while the US remained oblivious and smug, has exploded in Washington. Embarrassingly for President Barack Obama, the disclosures come on the eve of his much-anticipated visit to Beijing.

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It was not a one-sided transaction: the Pakistanis told the Chinese how European-designed centrifuges (whose designs Khan had stolen) could swiftly aid China's lagging uranium-enrichment program.

"Chinese experts started coming regularly to learn the whole technology" from Pakistan and Pakistani experts were dispatched to Hanzhong in central China, where they helped "put up a centrifuge plant," Khan said in an account he gave to his wife after Musharraf purged him under US pressure. That letter eventually found its way to the Henderson who shared it with the Washington Post, which advanced the story on Thursday. "We sent 135 C-130 plane loads of machines, inverters, valves, flow meters, pressure gauges," Khan wrote. "Our teams stayed there for weeks to help and their teams stayed here for weeks at a time."

Read more: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/China-gifted-50-kg-uranium-for-two-bombs-to-Pakistan/articleshow/5226309.cms

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US will do nothing about this alleged violation of NPT by China because China hold a trillion dollar in reserve

US will do nothing about this alleged violation by Pakistan because Pakistan is central to US' fight in Terrorism.

With friends like these, US doesn't need enemines ...

[Ian David]

1. Thank you, Ronald Reagan, for a nuclear-armed Pakistan! n/t

[iandhr]

2. I am sorry...

Pakistian went nuclear when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the leader of the country during the 70s. This is one thing that was not Reagans falt.

[populistdriven]

5. It is the fault of the Dutch

http://www.stopwapenhandel.org/actueel/persberichten/20012005/english%20nucleartechn.html

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Dutch_Businessman_Defends_Nuclear_Exports_To_Pakistan.html

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a050172khanfdo#a050172khanfdo

[Soylent Brice]

3. DOH!

*sigh*

[BumRushDaShow]

4. From the article "...sometime in the early 1980s..."

This article is bullshit with this nonsense about "Embarrassingly for President Barack Obama...", leaving out the fact that this happened when Obama was in college and Ronny Raygun was preparing to terrorize Grenada. :eyes:

But I'm sick of that entire region of the world. :puke: If India and Pakistan want to nuke each other, go right ahead and keep the radiation on your side of the world.