WEASAL ALERT#2 - Roots of Pakistan's Nuke Program Traced to Europe

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PARIS, Feb. 18 ? The Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has been demonized in the West for selling atomic secrets and equipment around the world, but the trade began in Europe, not Islamabad, according to court documents and experts who monitor proliferation.

The records show that industry scientists and Western intelligence agencies have known for decades that nuclear technology was pouring out of Europe despite national export control efforts to contain it.

Many of the names that have turned up among lists of suppliers and middlemen who fed equipment, materials and knowledge to nuclear programs in Pakistan and other aspiring nuclear nations are well-known players in Europe's uranium enrichment industry, a critical part of many nuclear weapons programs. Some have been convicted of illegal exports before.
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You can read the rest of this report at the New York Times

[you may now resume your regularly scheduled USA bashing already in progress]

 

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...Delft Technological University in Leuven, Belgium, in the late 1960's.

last time I checked, Delft Technological University is in the city of Delft, The Netherlands and not in Belgium