The World : Aid for Pakistan Bomb Told
A West German news magazine reported that more than 70 West German companies have helped Pakistan in the development of an atomic bomb and that Bonn officials ignored intelligence reports about nuclear-related exports. “From special steel, optical equipment and computers to highly explosive tritium, the German companies delivered practically everything that is needed for the construction of an atomic bomb,” Stern magazine said. Experts say Pakistan has been developing nuclear weapons, but Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has repeatedly stated that her country does not have nuclear weapons and has no intention of developing them.
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