What is Pakistans role in the proliferation of nuclear weapons to enemies of the United States?
Last week, I mentioned that our deal to get Libya to surrender its nuclear weapons program to the United States, parts and all, had the important side effect of once again showing us and the world that our so-called ally Pakistan is a actually a huge threat to our safety and world peace. Why’s that? Well, because our analysts have determined that Libya’s nuclear warhead designs actually came from Pakistan. The Libya/Pakistan connection has also supposedly clued the U.S. government in to something that readers of obscure newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post and the one in your hands right now have known since at least 2002: Pakistan is practically running a correspondence course and parts catalog for wannabe nuclear powers. I wrote in October 2002 that North Korea got its nuclear weapons designs from Pakistan in exchange for North Korean missile know-how. Pakistan exploded its first nuclear weapon in 1998 but had been working on acquiring nukes since the 1970s when Ind
