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The AQ Khan nuclear malaise has disseminated to places beyond the usual suspect countries, says a report in the New York Times.
Four years after Abdul Qadeer Khan, the leader of the world's largest black market in nuclear technology, was put under house arrest, much more shocking revelations are coming out of the scientist's network's computers.
Investigators now fear that the blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear weapon could have been passed to many more countries.
Officials say the parts of the design were coded so that they could be transferred quickly to an automated manufacturing system.
Working in secret for two years, investigators have tracked the digitized blueprints to Khan computers in
The blueprints are rapidly reproducible for creating a weapon that is relatively small and easy to hide, making it potentially attractive to terrorists, says the report.
As the development leaves the world worried,
"We've been very direct with them that releasing Khan could cause a world of trouble," a senior
"The problem with
The illicit nuclear network run by Dr. Khan was busted in 2004. President Bush, eager for an intelligence victory after the failure to find unconventional weapons in
Since then, evidence has emerged that the network sold uranium enrichment technology to
Only in recent months that officials have begun to confirm that they had found the design for a bomb itself among material seized from some of Dr. Khan's top lieutenants, a Swiss family, the Tinners, the report said.
The same design documents were found in computers in three other locations connected to Khan operatives, the report said.
The blueprints bear a strong resemblance to weapons tested by
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