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China transferred nuclear weapon designs to pakistan Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/16/wnuke16.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/16/ixworld.html http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/16/wnuke16.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/16/ixworld.html China 'transferred nuclear weapon designs to Pakistan' By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 16/02/2004) China has been identified as the original source of nuclear weapons designs found in Libya in the latest disclosure about the global spread of nuclear technology. American and European experts told the Washington Post that documents handed over by Libya had yielded "dramatic evidence" of Beijing's role in transferring nuclear technology and designs to Pakistan in the 1980s. The Chinese designs were later sold on to Libya by the Pakistan-based network that is now at the centre of an international investigation of nuclear proliferation. The papers, which included text in Chinese, had comprehensive details on how to build a nuclear bomb to fit on top of a ballistic missile. "It tells you what torque to use on the bolts and what glue to use on the parts," one weapons expert told the newspaper. The designs were "very, very old" but "very well engineered". Intelligence officials long ago concluded that China gave early help to Pakistan in building its first nuclear weapon. But this appears to be the hardest evidence yet of the link. American officials took charge of the documents last November after Col Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, renounced weapons of mass destruction and opened his laboratories to international inspection. The blueprints are said to have been flown to Washington last month and analysed by experts from America, Britain and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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