Posted on 06/15/2008 11:10:57 AM PDT by Fennie
An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The now-defunct ring led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is previously known to have sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
A draft report by former top United Nations arms inspector David Albright says the smugglers also acquired designs for building a more sophisticated compact nuclear device that could be fitted on a type of ballistic missile used by Iran and other developing countries, according to the Post...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
“May have?”
Depend on it. The Iranians have the full set of blueprints, the specifications, and most of the materials they need, and are hard at work applying all that they already have.
Would these be the W-88 plans that Bill Clinton allowed to be stolen?
How much in campaign contributions did the POS get for those?
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