AQ Khan transferred centrifuges to N Korea: Musharraf [View All]

[Roland99]

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13924496

Islamabad: Giving details of disgraced scientist AQ Khan's clandestine nuclear transfers for the first time, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the country's top atomic expert had provided North Korea with centrifuges and their designs.

"Yes, he passed centrifuges - parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number," Musharraf told Japan's Kyodo news agency, but played down the roles these transfers had played in North Korea's bid to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

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Musharraf said Khan could not have been of immense help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme because his laboratory was engaged in uranium enrichment and not in other steps needed to make a nuclear bomb such as conversion of uranium into gas and development of trigger mechanism and delivery system.

"So if North Korea has made a bomb ... Dr AQ Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade. He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system," the President said.

Yeah...those trigger mechanisms and delivery systems are just so lethal without uranium.

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