Eyewitness to nukes
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The Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear technology to several rogue states told interrogators this week that he saw three nuclear devices in North Korea. Abdul Qadeer Khan said that, on a trip to North Korea five years ago, he was taken to a secret underground plant, where he saw the bombs. It was the first time a foreigner had confirmed the existence of an assembled nuclear device. North Korea is thought to be currently reprocessing fuel to make more bombs, a development that could be even more ominous than this week’s revelation. “There’s a difference between two or three and eight,” Sandy Berger, national security advisor under President Clinton, told The New York Times, “and it’s called the market in weapons for global terrorists.”
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