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Nature 414, 3 (1 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35102221

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Atomic-bomb experts interrogated over Taliban links

David Adam

Two retired nuclear-weapons physicists were questioned last week by Pakistani security services over their possible links to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.A spokesperson for the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, former director of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which built the nation's atomic bomb, and Chaudry Abdul Majeed, a former senior scientist at the PAEC, were "asked some questions" about their connections with Afghanistan.