Um, yipes?
From Seattle Times:
Four years after Abdul Qadeer Khan, the leader of the world’s largest atomic black market, was put under house arrest and his operation declared over, international inspectors and Western officials were confronting a new mystery left by him, this time over who might have received blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear weapon found on his network’s computers.
Working in secret for two years, investigators have tracked the digitized blueprints to Khan computers in Switzerland, Dubai, Malaysia and Thailand. The blueprints are electronic and could be rapidly reproducible for creating a weapon relatively small and easy to hide, making it attractive to terrorists.
The revelation over the weekend that the Khan operation even had such a blueprint underscores the questions that remain about what the Pakistani metallurgist and the father of Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program, was selling and to whom.
It also raises the possibility he may still have sensitive material in his possession.
Read on.