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"Chinese Helped Pakistan Get the Bomb"

13/11/09November 13, 2009

The "Washington Post" has published new details of how China and Pakistan cooperated closely in developing nuclear weapons in the 1970s and 1980s. The "Post" says it is based on written accounts by A.Q. Khan, the maverick scientist and father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, which the paper has seen. It claims there was a secret nuclear deal between Chinese and Pakistani leaders Mao Zedong and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and that Khan himself transported weapons-grade uranium by plane from China to Pakistan in 1982, along with blueprints for atomic bombs.

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The "Post" says its report is based on accounts by A.Q. Khan
The "Post" says its report is based on accounts by A.Q. KhanImage: AP