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briefcase bomb

— noun a bomb consisting of an explosive and timer hidden inside a briefcase

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In 1977, when I served in President Jimmy Carter's State Department, I was sent to India to dissuade that country's leaders from developing a nuclear bomb.

But revelations about the nuclear weapons smuggling network organized by A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, confirm the danger I predicted back then.

Even today, the Bomb divides the world into two classes: the few states have it, and the many that do not.

It threatens to bomb Iran.

Just this year, a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of nuclear weapons below five kilotons--the bomb at Hiroshima was 15 kilotons--was eliminated.

Likewise, US administrations have remained wedded to the Bomb.

One, once headed by Dr. Khan, is responsible for producing bomb-grade uranium gas that, when converted to metal, provides the crucial fuel for a nuclear explosion.

Thus the mystery: how could Dr. Khan - who had no need to possess weapons design information - have handed over detailed bomb design documents to Libya?

These dealt with technical means for enabling centrifuge rotors to spin close to the speed of sound without disintegrating, -essential for making bomb-grade uranium.

For the moment, the efforts of some Pakistani bomb-makers to peddle nuclear secrets appear to have been stymied.

As a result, Pakistan's bomb-makers have seriously jeopardized the safety of their country.

It is possible that America would bomb Pakistan first - perhaps with nuclear weapons - and look later for justifications later.

It is time to give up the fantasy of an Islamic Bomb, and it is past the time to rein in Pakistan's rogue bomb-makers.

The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.

His body was found in a hotel toilet in the city of Kaduna with the remains of a parcel bomb after an explosion that no one heard.

The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha's dictatorship.

We need something on the scale of the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb), or the Apollo Program (which put a man on the moon).

Solutions such as these are not explored, however, because they are not within obviously immediate reach, as the atomic bomb and the lunar landing were.

The stakes have never been higher - and not only because of the very real and dangerous geopolitical consequences of an Iranian bomb.

But his audacity confronted a world in which the Bomb remained at the heart of many countries' deterrence strategies.

Britain's High Commissioner in Bangladesh was wounded in a similar bomb attack this May.

To guarantee that Iran never acquires a nuclear bomb, the US would need to maintain military pressure on Iran for several years.

Most new revelations about Pakistan's nuclear scandal focus on the clandestine supply of uranium enrichment technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya by the celebrated bomb-maker Dr. A. Q. Khan.

But the documents that Libya turned over to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and subsequently to the US, show that Pakistan supplied more than just equipment for making bomb fuel.