I wonder if China did this in order to ensure that India would stay focused on Pakistan rather than China. In case you don’t know, China fought India in 1962.
Scientist: China gave Pakistan nuke blueprint – Washington Post- msnbc.com
In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post. The uranium transfer in five stainless-steel boxes was part of a broad-ranging, secret nuclear deal approved years earlier by Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that culminated in an exceptional, deliberate act of proliferation by a nuclear power, according to the accounts by Khan, who is under house arrest in Pakistan.
The difficult part now seems to be figuring out exactly who Pakistan shared its nuclear technology with.
