China may have provided nuclear weapons design to Pakistan: Declassified CIA document

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2. With nuclear proliferation a policy priority for the Jimmy Carter administration...

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China provided nuclear weapons designs to Pakistan?
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 09:27

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Significant portions of the document covering technology sharing are excised, but more may be learned if additional details are released under appeal, the NSA added.

With nuclear proliferation a policy priority for the Jimmy Carter administration, and Pakistan already a special concern, the possibility that China and Pakistan were sharing nuclear weapons-related information began worrying US government officials, NSA said.

However, the CIA had no hard evidence--and the soft evidence that concerned them is massively excised in the December 1979 report just as Beijing and Washington were normalising relations-so the "precise nature and extent of this cooperation is uncertain," the NSA said.

"These concerns did not go away during the Reagan administration. While nuclear proliferation was not a top priority, the administration was apprehensive about the implications of the spread of nuclear capabilities and that China may have been aiding and abetting some potential proliferators by selling non-safeguarded nuclear materials," NSA said.

(Note: NSA refers to the National Security Archive, not the National Security Agency).