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Article: "We can do it ourselves." (Abdul Qadeer Khan as Pakistan's leading nuclear scientist)(includes interview)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
- Author:
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The main office of Abdul Qader Khan, the man thought to be at the center of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear weapons project, is in a cluster of buildings built by the British in the 1940s to house the fire fighters at the Rawalpindi airstrip. The airstrip is still there, but it is now the Islamabad airport, serving Pakistan's capital, which was built in the 1960s. The roar of passenger jets or a Pakistani air force Hercules is continually in the background during conversations with A. Q. Khan.
Around the office are the trophies and mementos of his work - a cast iron model of an M-109 tracked howitzer given by the Pakistani army, a gift from China of a missile with ...