'China tested Pakistan's first nuclear bomb in the 90s'

The Times of India ^ | 4 Jan 2009, 0057 hrs IST | The Times of India

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

WASHINGTON: China had tested for Pakistan its first nuclear bomb as early as in 1990, enabling Islamabad to respond within weeks to the Indian atomic tests eight years later, a top US nuclear expert has claimed.

“The Chinese did a massive training of Pakistani scientists, brought them to China for lectures, even gave them the design of the CHIC-4 device, which was a weapon that was easy to build a model for export,” former US Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed told American news magazine ‘US News and World Report’.

Reed, who worked at Livermore National Laboratory as weapons designer, had co-authored a book — The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation — with Danny Stillman, the former director of technical intelligence division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb


EXCERPT:

Moscow freely shared its atomic thefts with Mao Zedong, China’s leader. The book says that Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet spy in the Manhattan Project who was eventually caught and, in 1959, released from jail, did likewise. Upon gaining his freedom, the authors say, Fuchs gave the mastermind of Mao’s weapons program a detailed tutorial on the Nagasaki bomb. A half-decade later, China surprised the world with its first blast.

The book, in a main disclosure, discusses how China in 1982 made a policy decision to flood the developing world with atomic know-how. Its identified clients include Algeria, Pakistan and North Korea.

Alarmingly, the authors say one of China’s bombs was created as an “export design” that nearly “anybody could build.” The blueprint for the simple plan has traveled from Pakistan to Libya and, the authors say, Iran. That path is widely assumed among intelligence officials, but Tehran has repeatedly denied the charge.

The book sees a quiet repercussion of China’s proliferation policy in the Algerian desert. Built in secrecy, the reactor there now makes enough plutonium each year to fuel one atom bomb and is ringed by antiaircraft missiles, the book says.

China’s deck also held a wild card: its aid to Pakistan helped A.Q. Khan, a rogue Pakistani metallurgist who sold nuclear gear on the global black market. The authors compare Dr. Khan to “a used-car dealer” happy to sell his complex machinery to suckers who had no idea how hard it was to make fuel for a bomb.

Why did Beijing spread its atomic knowledge so freely? The authors speculate that it either wanted to strengthen the enemies of China’s enemies (for instance, Pakistan as a counterweight to India) or, more chillingly, to encourage nuclear wars or terror in foreign lands from which Beijing would emerge as the “last man standing.”

NY Times

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/how_each_nuclearcapable_country_got_its_bombs_visualized.html

 

[wolfcreek]

"Moscow freely shared its atomic thefts with Mao Zedong, China’s leader" "Those Bastards!" "They'll end up killing KENNY!"

[KevinDavis]

Which Clinton gave the Chinese our nuclear secrets.. So you can say that Clinton gave Pakistan the nuclear know how..

[Spirochete]

more chillingly, to encourage nuclear wars or terror in foreign lands from which Beijing would emerge as the “last man standing.”

We should proliferate nuke technology to Taiwan and Japan.

[Tallguy]

Both of those countries could go nuclear if they so chose.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Dark Wing]

FYI

[Cronos]

The Chinese gave the Pakis their nukes by the 90s

[Cronos]

Not wise. Just station nookes on Japan. Taiwan I don’t trust — I think they’re pallying up too close to China and will eventually re-unify.

[Cronos]

“’China tested Pakistan’s first nuclear bomb in the 90s’” —> no wonder the Paki “tests” mostly failed. It was all “made in China” stuff :-P

[Cronos]

“’China tested Pakistan’s first nuclear bomb in the 90s’” —> no wonder the Paki “tests” mostly failed. It was all “made in China” stuff :-P

[BuffaloJack]

The diagram doesn’t go back far enough.
USA, Japan and Germany all had atomic projects during WW2. Japan’s project never completed. Germany’s project was advanced and its scientists were split between USSR and USA at the end of the war.