{"id":206,"date":"2009-02-06T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-02-06T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:18:52","slug":"nuclear-secrets-smuggler-aq-khan-is-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/nuclear-secrets-smuggler-aq-khan-is-now-free","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Secrets Smuggler A.Q. Khan is Now Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hF7ZYNqjRJW0jcpPOK3AcQ7NvuVAD96623U80\">Associated Press<\/a>, Abdul Qadeer Khan is now free to \u201cmove around\u201d and is no longer under house arrest (where he was confined since 2004).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn January 2004, Khan confessed to having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. On February 5, 2004, the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, announced that he had pardoned Khan, who is widely seen as a national hero.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan\">Source<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>For more information about nuclear proliferation, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nti.org\/index.php\">Nuclear Threat Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearrisk.org\/\">Defusing the Nuclear Risk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acceleratingfuture.com\/michael\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-nuclear-test\/\">recent post<\/a> by Michael Anissimov, the Fundraising Director of the Lifeboat Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, Abdul Qadeer Khan is now free to \u201cmove around\u201d and is no longer under house arrest (where he was confined since 2004). \u201cIn January 2004, Khan confessed to having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. On [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}