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Tues Oct 31 on SBS (Cutting Edge)
| quote: | Nuclear Jihad
Tuesday, 31 October at 8.30pm
Abdul Qadeer Khan – Pakistan’s nuclear scientist and rogue nuclear salesman – has done more than any other person or country to spread nuclear weapons around the world.
Name a nuclear hotspot and Khan's clients are there – Iran, North Korea, Libya, and perhaps the deadliest potential customer of all – a terrorist network willing to make its own nuclear jihad.
This is the story of one man's deadly legacy that has spread around the world; how he managed to get away with it for so long; and how the nuclear seeds he helped plant could explode anytime, anywhere.
Khan has changed the rules of the nuclear game forever. The first nuclear age was about great powers facing off against each other. It was terrifying, but at least everybody knew the rules.
In the second nuclear age, there is no return address and so there is no deterrence. The bomb could come in a backpack, in a briefcase, or in even in an ox cart. We could now see the privatisation of the atomic bomb, and it's a much more frightening world.
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