Lost nuclear warhead blueprints, return to Pakistan, if found.
Some of you might remember the story about the “father” of Pakistani nuclear program, A.Q. Khan. In short, a few years ago he confessed of supplying nuclear weapons technology to such countries as Iran, North Korea and Libya. Everybody was happy since the documents were found, thief punished, and the case was closed.
Now, it’s being reported that those blueprints were actually digital copy based. Which means there is a possibility that somewhere and someone still has access to those documents. It’s still unknown yet how many people have a copy of it.
A design for a compact, missile-ready nuclear weapon could help an aspiring nuclear power overcome a major technical hurdle and vastly increase its options for delivery of a nuclear explosive. Such a design could theoretically help North Korea — which detonated a nuclear device in a 2006 test — to couple a nuclear warhead with its Nodong missile, which has a proven range of 1,300 kilometers (about 800 miles).
Sources: Washington Post A.Q. Khan on Wikipedia
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