Hidden travels of the atomic bomb
The atomic bomb was only developed once, and then its secrets were stolen, shared or sold by the eight other nuclear powers – no state has ever developed its own bomb. So says a new book by two Los Alamos and Livermore heavyweights who say that China hosted a Pakistan bomb test 1990 (under Benazir Bhutto), gave France access to their test site, and gave a way a simple bomb design. They also confirm that Israel and South Africa cooperated on a neutron weapon test in 1979, as well as exchanging tritium for uranium. The authors argue that bombs are so hard to make that proliferation is not inevitable, contrary to the argument used by many anti-disarmament ‘experts’.
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