Why China Helped Countries Like Pakistan, North Korea Build Nuclear Bombs
Is sharing nuclear tests common?
The United States conducted nuclear tests in Nevada openly and with full disclosure in the 1990s on behalf of our U.K. allies. We speculate on Israeli access to the U.S. test results. For their part, the Chinese admitted to having conducted hydronuclear and radiation effects tests for France, but most tellingly they also implied—they certainly did not deny—the test of a Pakistani device. The South Africans also apparently worked with the Israelis on a nuclear test in the South Pacific in 1979.
Are Chinese proliferation programs ongoing?
Since 1991, China has been assisting the raw-materials side of the Iranian nuclear program with shipments of uranium, instructions on the design of a conversion facility in Eshfahan, and an enrichment facility at Karaj. China has been using North Korea as the re-transfer point for the sale of nuclear and missile technology to Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.
You also write that Israel was given assistance in developing their bomb while the United States looked the other way.
In the wake of the Suez crisis in 1956, the French and the Israelis initiated a joint nuclear weapons program that resulted in a test in the Algerian desert. At that test in 1960, two countries went nuclear with one shot.
Is the world safer or more dangerous with all these powers?
The world is safer for having all the permanent UN Security Council members possess nuclear weapons. I think having North Korea, Pakistan, and India is probably not a good idea. Nuclear proliferation, above all, is not inevitable as many thought at the dawn of the nuclear age.
- Read more about the history of the nuclear bomb.
Reader Comments
Depends on whose point of view
"The world is safer for having all the permanent UN Security Council members possess nuclear weapons. I think having North Korea, Pakistan, and India is probably not a good idea."
India with a population of a billion people, does not need his advice on how to protect itself. If not for people like him , we have a tern called Non Proliferation Ayatollahs, the grand wizards of the nuclear era ,trying hard to hide Chinese proliferation and offensive posture, the situation would not have come this point.
Name any country which have proliferation footprints with India. The nuclear weapons and any associated technology has been developed in house.India therefore does not subscribe to all these 3,4 letter treaties which are a nicely worded arm control regimes peddled as treaties.
The author has his opinions, which does not resonate with a billion people, his is a lonely voice.
Tariq mushtaq in denial
pakistan helping china with fusion technology,JF 17 comparable to F 16, pakistan has broad reverse based engineering.................!
China helped and is still helping pakistan with nuclear technology. (khushaab heavy water reactor)
Pakistan has been asking for new F16s from america for quite sometime. because it knows very well that F16s are far superior to JF17. (read technical evaluations from some trusted neutral site) china and pakistan co-developed JF17. But chinese themselves are buying sukhois in bulk from Russia.
World accepted fact that many of the pakistan's missiles are based on north korean and chinese missiles. there was nothing of reverse engineering just copy and paste.
mate, frankly speaking u should check for yourself for the facts regarding the above topics and decide for yourself whether you want to accept the illusion which is in front of you or the truth.
historyteacher
China only want to defend its land. Cunning Britain without owning the region gave it to India. India new generation does not know this fact and get their target in a wrong way. Britain should be responsible for all these! China does not hate India at all. China moved to the region to show China can go there but did not stay there. India should realize the fact that Britain did not own that region. The borderline drawn by British is not valid in this case. India should not hate China but another bad cunning country.
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