In the 1980s, the Reagan-Bush administration was so eager to use Pakistan as a route to get Stinger missiles and other weapons to Osama bin-Laden and Islamic radicals fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan that CIA analysts were bullied into closing their eyes to Pakistan's development of a nuclear bomb. Then, the Pakistani bomb-makers contributed to nuclear proliferation both by selling the technology and giving rival India an incentive to build its own bomb. |
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