Nuke scientist says bomb dad stole his patent

An official American website has for years displayed the entire process of enriching uranium to 100 per cent purity, and interestingly, the ...

An official American website has for years displayed the entire process of enriching uranium to 100 per cent purity, and interestingly, the patent for it was issued to a Pakistani nuclear scientist who claims that Abdul Qadeer Khan stole it to make nuclear bombs.

The Pakistani scientist, Mohammad Quader Hussain, got the patent in 1995 after having submitted the process to the US patent office first in 1982 following Pakistan government’s refusal to grant him a patent, the South Asia Tribune said in a special report.

Hussain was quoted as telling New York Times earlier that his liquid centrifuge process worked and that ‘‘in 1980 a colleague (in Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission) told him that Dr A.Q. Khan, the (then) director of the PAEC, was using his liquid centrifuge process.’’

The US government issued patent no. 5417944 in May 1995 and put it up on the official site of US patents. The report quotes one of Hussain’s colleagues as saying, Khan had entered the PAEC in mid-1970s. Hussain was soon fired from PAEC for complaining that Khan had ‘‘stolen his entire work’’.

-PTI

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