The father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and a proponent of nuclear proliferation, Abdul Qadeer Khan, died Sunday at the age of 85 after a lengthy battle with COVID-19. He was a figure mired in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Former officer in the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Kiriakou, in a stunning revelation, disclosed that the America had refrained from eliminating Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of ...

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. Thanks to Paul Kerr at TotalWonkerr for catching this. Dr. A.Q. Khan, who once led ...

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 ...

Pakistan's nuclear program has always been a target for Western propaganda and false accusations. I would like to make it clear that it was an Indian nuclear explosion in May 1974 that prompted our ...

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 ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan is tired of being a scapegoat. The controversial father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb shared hi-tech secrets and equipment with a host of rogue regimes — including North Korea and ...