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2005-05-11 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-11 8:33:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Khan's bomb and plans are suppose to be for a U-bomb. A P-bomb is a different and more complicated animal. Where did the Norks get that design?

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-11 09:48|| 2005-05-11 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Khans was a U bomb? Didn't know that. RB's John asserts all of the designs in question NORK and Paki are baseline Chinee designs.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-11 10:06|| 2005-05-11 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting question ... and a related one is what China got from Russia or elsewhere.

Posted by too true 2005-05-11 10:09|| 2005-05-11 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Mmmmmm, stakes...

Posted by Homer Simpson 2005-05-11 13:16|| 2005-05-11 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/nuke-test.htm
A Test in Pakistan?

In the autumn of 1998 a report leaked from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory indicated that air samples acquired from the Kharan Desert test by US intelligence aircraft contained traces of plutonium. Pakistan, at the time of the tests, had not had time to develop a warhead from the minimal quantities of plutonium generated by the research reactor at PINSTECH. The most plausible explanation was that North Korea had participated in a joint test of an atomic weapon.

Posted by john 2005-05-11 20:13|| 2005-05-11 20:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Note that there are TWO weapon producing agencies in Pakistan - KRL and PAEC.
A.Q. Khan runs one (KRL) and the other was run by his rival Munir Ahmad Khan.

AQK's bomb was Uranium but the PAEC weapon (also Chinese in origin) was plutonium based and more sophisticated.

Posted by john 2005-05-11 20:19|| 2005-05-11 20:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Benazir Bhutto, mother of the Taliban, has practically admitted that Pakistan, under her watch, traded nuclear warhead technology (originally obtained from China) for North Korean missiles.

There seems to have been trade with China as well.
AQK (who is a metallurgist not a physicist) stole the centrifuge plans from URENCO in Europe.
This is technology that the Chinese would have been interested in.
There is also the matter of the single F-16 transferred to Beijing (for reverse engineering attempts) by Pakistan.

Posted by john 2005-05-11 20:29|| 2005-05-11 20:29|| Front Page Top

#8 http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/nuke.htm
Pakistan Foreign Minister Yakub Khan was present at the Chinese Lop Nor test site to witness the test of a small nuclear device in May 1983, giving rise to speculation that a Pakistani-assembled device was detonated in this test.

Note Pakistan assembled not Pakistan designed

As I mentioned before, Pakistan simply lacks the scientific and engineering talent to design nuclear and missile systems.

During the first 40 years, all the universities and research institutions in Pakistan produced only 128 PhDs in scientific disciplines. Of these 89 were produced in 1982-86.
Most of these PhDs were in chemical and biological sciences. Physics, a subject essential for developing a nuclear energy programme, has been a neglected science in Pakistan. In the first 40 years, Pakistani universities and research institutions produced less than a dozen PhDs in this field
A directory of Pakistani scientists and technologists with a PhD degree (mostly from abroad) produced in the late 90s listed just over 2,000 names. Ten per cent of these had already retired. The situation has improved little since then.

http://www.mshel.com/book00079.html

Posted by john 2005-05-11 20:53|| 2005-05-11 20:53|| Front Page Top

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