Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles southeast of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Much of the facility is buried beneath the earth, a precaution against accident -- or perhaps surprise attack. Paratroopers guard the installation, and tanks block all routes into Kahuta. Crotale surface-to- air missiles and antiaircraft guns bristle toward the skies, through which Pakistani air force planes fly round-the-clock patrols. Unauthorized entry to Kahuta is impossible, sightseeing in the vicinity ill advised...
...history of Pakistan's nuclear effort shows the bedeviling complexity of proliferation and the difficulties involved in containing it. Pakistan's nuclear program got under way in 1955. Over the next nine years, 37 Pakistani scientists were trained at atomic facilities in the U.S., and in 1965 Pakistan began operating its first nuclear reactor, a small research installation supplied by the U.S., under international inspection safeguards. In 1976 the Kahuta center was established...
...following Pakistan's defeat in the third India-Pakistan war, Bhutto made his move. Less than two months after becoming President, he convened a secret conference of Pakistani scientists and bureaucrats in the city of Multan. There, he launched Project 706, Pakistan's equivalent of the U.S.'s Manhattan Project...
Pakistan reportedly received hundreds of millions of dollars for Project 706 from Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who in return was permitted to send his scientists to study Pakistan's enrichment advances. Nominally, the Libyan payments were made in return for Pakistani military assistance. Then, in 1977, after Zia came to power, Libya's connection with Project 706 was cut. Zia disliked and distrusted Gaddafi, and turned instead to Saudi Arabia for financial assistance. Saudi Arabia's payments were officially rendered in return for Pakistani military help...
...further example of Khan's activities came to light last year in Canada, during the trial of three Pakistani-born naturalized Canadians on charges that they had tried to circumvent local export controls. Two officials of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission allegedly asked the trio in July 1980 to buy various components for a device that can be used to spin high-speed centrifuges. The equipment is manufactured by General Electric Co. at a plant in Hudson Falls, N.Y., and at U.S. factories of Westinghouse Electric Corp., RCA Corp. and Motorola Inc. The three Canadians made ten shipments to Pakistan...