(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) In Depth: Smuggling of Nuclear Technology & Link to Pakistan

Topic: Smuggling of Nuclear Technology & Link to Pakistan

Topic Description:

This follows a United States grand jury indictment of five men ... who allegedly ran an international network that smuggled American technology for use in Pakistan’s nuclear and missile program.

The American products used to be sent to a Rawalpindi-based front company ... and used by entities that had for years been designated as threats to US national security and had links with Pakistan’s weapons programs...
All five men live outside the United States and haven't been apprehended.

The grand jury indictment was only unsealed on Wednesday and arrest warrants are pending.

The latest incident highlights a pattern of the Pakistani nuclear program ... which various analysts have alleged relies on the subversion of international law as well as usage of stolen and smuggled technology

The Pakistani nuclear program started in the 1950s ... it set up its first nuclear reactor with the help of the US in 1965