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Reports on the piece of evidence to the issue of the peddling of advanced nuclear technology by scientists at the secret Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratories in Pakistan. Circulation of the sales brochure of the laboratory; Three-decade long project to build a nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium by Pakistan; Emergence of the country as the intellectual and trading center of a loose network of hidden nuclear proliferators.

Reports that, roughly a year after Libya disarmed and Pakistan put Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under house arrest, the intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are still far from fully understanding Khan's atomic black market. Background on the rogue nuclear network led by Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb; How the inquiry into Khan's global enterprise has been hampered by discord between the U.S. President George W. Bush administration and the IAEA; Khan's role as mastermind of the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network in history; Concerns; Outlook. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed.