Pakistan frees AQ Khan; India calls for more nuclear tests

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Two articles posted in LBN yesterday:

Curbs on nuclear scientist lifted

Source: BBC

A court in Pakistan has lifted the final restrictions on controversial nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, allowing him total freedom of movement.

Dr Khan, whose work helped Pakistan become a nuclear state, spent years under house arrest after he admitted selling off nuclear weapons secrets.

In February 2009 most restrictions on him were lifted, but he still had to notify authorities of his movements.

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Dr Khan confessed to transferring nuclear weapons technology to Libya, North Korea and Iran in 2004 but was later pardoned by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8226124.stm

Call for more India nuclear tests

Source: BBC

India should conduct further nuclear tests to establish itself as a true nuclear power, the former head of India's main nuclear body has said.

PK Iyengar told the BBC that he made it clear in 2002 that India's nuclear tests were inconclusive and ambiguous.

His comments come as atomic scientist K Santhanam, who was associated with India's 1998 nuclear tests, said they were not as successful as claimed.

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"If India wants to declare itself as a nuclear power and confirm to the military that you have all the means of designing a thermo-nuclear device which can go into a missile, which can be dropped from an aircraft or can be launched from a submarine, you need many more tests," Mr Iyengar, the former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), told the BBC.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8226625.stm

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[NNadir]

1. And let's not forget those very dangerous Australians while we're at it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=228&topic_id=55834&mesg_id=55834">Nasty Australians.

I am very concerned about the existence of petroleum scientists in Pakistan, by the way, since Pakistan has historically used dangerous fossil fuel weapons in wars with India.

What about you?