The Pakistani metallurgist who sold centrifuges and bomb designs to Iran, Libya and North Korea: his customers, his suppliers, his papers, even his house.
IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt’s Statement to the Board of Governors confirms an account, which first appeared in The Washington Post, that the A.Q. Khan network offered Iran assistance with its centrifuge program in 1987. Goldschmidt told the Board…
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein have an article, Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, in The Washington Quarterly that has previously upublished information about the Chinese nuclear weapons design provided to Libya by the Khan network: The…
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the…
The bird must be destroyed, feathers and all. They fed us to the dogs. Those were a pair of SMS messages, exchanged by accused middlemen Gerhard Wisser and Johan Meyer, after Libya came out of the cold and admitted to…
Mark Hibbs has published specifications for Pakistan’s P3 and P4 centrifuges based on “Western government data.” I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so here it is (with rough data on the P1 and P2 for comparison): Desig. Derivation Rotor Velocity…
Greetings from Beijing We now have David Albright’s essay on the advanced nuclear weapons design, as well as stories in the New York Times and Washington Post. (David Sanger, Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Weapon, June 15, 2008; David Sanger…
You have no doubt seen the Times of London story, in which Catherine Philp claims to have obtained a 2007 “technical document” from from Iran that “describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has…
Joby Warrick of the Washington Post spotlighted the new book out by David Albright that sheds more light into the AQ Khan network: From the article: As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War,…
The Washington Post has just published its latest story by R. Jeffrey Smith based on a document supplied by A.Q. Khan to English journalist and would-be Khan biographer Simon Henderson. This one is different – it’s not one of Khan’s…
Josh Pollack has an amazing article in Playboy (of all places) that identifies AQ Khan’s so-called fourth customer: India. The image of a Pakistani magistrate revoking AQ Khan’s pardon intercut with scenes of Josh cavorting with bunnies at the Playboy…
There was no love lost between Munir Ahmad Khan and A.Q. Khan. Munir was chosen by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to ramp up the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission’s work on nuclear weapons. AQ offered his services to Bhutto from Europe, and…
Where does AQ Khan live? Well, he has at least two houses in Islamabad – a lake-side villa in Bani Gala that was the subject of controversy as detailed by William Langeweische in The Atlantic and home in the E-7…
Yesterday, the two us — Jeffrey Lewis and Jende Huang — discussed AQ Khan’s residence in the upscale E-7 neighborhood of Islamabad, where he lived for many years including the period he was under house arrest. Today, we turn our…
