In my earlier look into nuclear proliferation issues (whose initially promised final two parts on state nuclear ambitions and US ballistic missile defense I'm afraid probably won't be forthcoming after all, since I don't really have the time to devote proper attention to them at the moment) I speculated that, based on its past record of support for militant jihaddis in the name of Pan-Islam, there might well have been some sort of similar encouragement coming from the Pakistani government, which makes a far more likely nexus of terrorists and nuclear weapons than Iraq ever did, towards the proliferation network of A.Q. Khan. It's something of a relief to read today that, in the estimation of the Institute for Science and International Security, that doesn't appear to have been the case:
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