Thread explaining how Europeans(French, German,Brits,Dutch,Swiss) and then USA under Reagan helped pakis get nukes..
Are you aware that former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment on CDs to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang?
The assertion is based on conversations that the author, Shyam Bhatia, had with Bhutto in 2003, in which she said she would tell him a secret “so significant that I had to promise never to reveal it, at least not during her lifetime,” Bhatia writes in “Goodbye, Shahzadi,” which was published in India in 2008.
Pakistan was in desperate need of new missile technology that would counter India’s missiles. Bhutto said she was asked to carry “critical nuclear data” to hand over in Pyongyang as part of a barter deal.
“Before leaving Islamabad she shopped for an overcoat with the ‘deepest possible pockets’ into which she transferred CDs containing the scientific data about uranium enrichment that the North Koreans wanted,” Bhatia writes. “She implied with a glint in her eye that she had acted as a two-way courier, bringing North Korea’s missile information on CDs back with her on the return journey.”
Bhutto got back not only the designs but also disassembled parts of an entire Nodong missile (Pak's Ghauri intermediate range ballistic missile) for Pakistani scientists to study part by part in the security of their own labs.
North Korean Nadong, Pak's Ghauri missile
And guess what. The irony of the episode was the use of American C-130s for the transport of missile parts from Korea and nuclear material from Pak in spite of the Americans and the West which wasted no time in shouting from the rooftops the dangers of nuclear proliferation but turned a blind eye to Pak's flagrant proliferation. Later, Pakistani and North Korean engineers are said to have worked together as joint advisers to develop Iran's rockets too!
