Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan’s activities for about 30 years. In 1979, the Washington Post named him as the Pakistani engineer who had left his position at the uranium ...

WHEN INDIA set off a nuclear bomb in the desert of Rajasthan in 1974, describing it implausibly as a “peaceful nuclear explosion”, a young Pakistani metallurgist in the Netherlands was ready to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thanks to Paul Kerr at TotalWonkerr for catching this. Dr. A.Q. Khan, who once led ...

A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program, has died in Islamabad at the age of 85. Pakistan's PTV state broadcaster announced on October 10 that Abdul Qadeer Khan had died after ...

Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, and Islamabad, Pakistan -- A Pakistani court today freed nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan from unofficial house arrest, capping a rehabilitation that began almost from the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Just last week I described A.Q. Khan, Pakistani nuclear trafficker extraordinaire, as ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan (undated photo) (epa) NEW YORK, June 7, 2006 -- "Nuclear Jihad," a new documentary by the Canadian film maker Julian Sher, focuses on the nuclear-proliferation activities of A.Q.

Khan was lauded for bringing Pakistan up to par with India in the atomic field – Copyright AFP/File Aamir QURESHI Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s ...

You can hardly blame a Pakistani nationalist for wanting his country to possess nuclear weapons, especially after neighboring India successfully tested its first bomb in 1974. Just three years earlier ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgical engineer who put Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s and became known as the father of his country’s nuclear bomb program, ...