OSAMA'S NUCLEAR QUEST

摘要

Nobody is certain what sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood has been up to in Afghanistan in the past three years—but nobody in the West much likes it either. Mahmood is one of Pakistan's leading nuclear engineers, a key part of the team that developed the country's small arsenal of atom bombs. According to a lot of people, he also may be a little flaky. The fact that since 1998, so loose a nuclear cannon has been traveling in and out of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where he hasrnhelped the Afghans construct a complex of buildings he describes as flour mills, has a lot of people worried.