Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani hero and rogue nuke-peddler, has died
Oct 11th 2021WHEN INDIA set off a nuclear bomb in the desert of Rajasthan in 1974, describing it implausibly as a “peaceful nuclear explosion”, a young Pakistani metallurgist in the Netherlands was ready to volunteer his services to his own country. A few months later, Abdul Qadeer Khan was sitting down with the prime minister,…
Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web
Oct 10th 2021WHO SHOULD police the internet? For some time now the question has tied companies, regulators and campaigners in knots. Social networks spend billions moderating content posted on their platforms, but are still criticised either for not removing enough toxic material or for stifling free speech. They are not the only ones to grapple…
A new crisis between America and Iran looms
Oct 10th 2021WASHINGTON, DCTHE FORMER French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, probably summed it up best: tough nuclear diplomacy with Iran, he said in 2007, was the best way to avoid the catastrophic choice between “an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran”. To escape this dilemma, President Joe Biden has been trying to revive the nuclear…