This is CBS I on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome my good colleague, Soutanan Dume, of the American Enterprise Institute, writing

for the Wall Street Journal editorial pages, call him East Is East.

The man's name, Abdul Kadir Khan.

This is history of the 20th century that very much is clear and present danger here in the 21st.

What if?

Saddam, on a very good evening to you.

Abdul Qadir Khan.

Who was he?

What was important about his contribution to chaos in the Middle East?

Good evening to you.

Very good evening to you, John.

Abdul Lathar Khan, or more familiarly known as... to chaos in the Middle East. Good evening to you. Very good evening to you, John.

Abdul Q. Gadir Khan, or more familiarly known as AQ Khan, is the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb. He was a metallurgist who used to work in the Netherlands in the 1970s and found

himself close to, you know, being able to

observe designs of four centrifuges to enrich uranium. He ended up stealing a bunch of designs

from the place where he worked and running away to Pakistan, which is his homeland, which is

where he was from. And then he was put in charge

of the Pakistani uranium enrichment program, which finally turned into the Pakistani nuclear bomb.

And he's also a sort of infamous figure in the 20th century and the early 21st century, because on the

side, he was running what came to be known as a nuclear Walmart where he

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