Reply #18: i won't pretend

[lukery]

to be able to answer that intelligently. i can tell you that barlow says that pakistan's proliferation put the dprk & iran into the nuclear club where they probably wouldn't have otherwise been.

i'm familiar with the Merlin 'tracer' operation - i'm not sure whether that was a parallel program to the aqkhan program, or if there was 'some' overlap, or if Merlin completely undermined/overlapped the khan program etc.