LA REVISTA TIME publicará en su edición de mañana dos artículos preocupantes (aún no está online; vía LGF): la primera es que el chiringuito de tráfico de tecnología y material nuclear que tenía montado el paquistaní A.Q. Khan es más importante aún de lo que se creía:

U.S. officials are investigating whether Khan’s network might have sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, according to a source in Pakistan’s Defense Ministry. At a moment when the international community is focused on a potential showdown with Iran, an extensive TIME investigation has revealed that Khan’s network played a bigger role in helping Tehran and Pyongyang than had been previously disclosed.

[...] The list of suspected nuclear clients is dizzying. Investigators believe that as head of Pakistan’s nuclear research laboratory, Khan traveled the world for more than a decade, visiting countries in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, TIME’s Bill Powell and Tim McGirk report. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and to such African countries as Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger.

La red de AQ Khan fue descubierta tras la "confesión" del líder libio Muamar el Gadafi, que puso a remojar sus barbas al ver cómo se las cortaban a Saddam Hussein. Pero no, el mundo no es más seguro, no.

La segunda es que Irán ha finalizado ya el diseño un detonador nuclear, a pesar de haber asegurado que detendrían el desarrollo del mismo mientras se llevara a cabo las negociaciones con el Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania:

The International Atomic Energy Agency has discovered that, despite its agreement to temporarily suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment, Iran was continuing to do maintenance work on a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Iran, TIME’s Daniel Eisenberg reports.

At the same time, the Iranians have allegedly finished designing a prototype of a detonator for a nuclear bomb, according to an opposition group based in Paris. Taking their cue from North Korea, the Iranians have seen “that you can extend a negotiating process and still build nukes,” says Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.

Son de esas noticias agradables para una plácida tarde de domingo, ¿verdad?