How China Helped Pakistan Develop Its Nuclear Weapons

A Nuclear Power's Act Of Proliferation -- Washington Post

Accounts by controversial scientist assert China gave Pakistan enough enriched uranium in '82 to make 2 bombs.

In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post.

The uranium transfer in five stainless-steel boxes was part of a broad-ranging, secret nuclear deal approved years earlier by Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that culminated in an exceptional, deliberate act of proliferation by a nuclear power, according to the accounts by Khan, who is under house arrest in Pakistan.

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My Comment: This is not the first time that I have heard stories like this one. China has been incredibly sloppy with its nuclear program .... using it as a means to promote relations with governments that are important to China's long term strategic interests. Pakistan has been one of these countries .... but the question arises .... was Pakistan the only one? Are their other countries that have benefited from China's nuclear program?

China will one day have to come clean with their actions. But when that day happens is unknown.