Overview
- Barlow tells ANI that Pakistan’s deterrent effort against India evolved into an export‑oriented “Islamic bomb” under A.Q. Khan.
- He alleges Khan’s network provided Iran early‑1990s gas‑centrifuge technology that underpins Tehran’s enrichment program.
- He says U.S. administrations tolerated Pakistan’s proliferation for more than two decades, citing Afghan war priorities described in a Brzezinski memo.
- He says India and Israel discussed a pre‑emptive strike on the Kahuta enrichment site in the early 1980s, a plan Indira Gandhi did not approve.
- He recounts two flashpoints: U.S. intelligence in 1990 spotting nuclear weapons on Pakistani F‑16s, and a 1987 maraging‑steel sting he claims was compromised after a warning to Islamabad.