"Every nuclear power has been a secret sharer of nuclear technology", according to Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal.
Stephens' opinion essay appeared on June 2 and although in narrative form it reads like an organizational chart in any corporation.
In America our bomb was conceived by European scientists and built in a joint effort with Britain and Canada.
The Soviets stole theirs thanks to atomic spies, including Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist who worked in Britain and the United States.
The Soviets gave the Chinese a start in their nuclear program.
Britain gave the secret of the hydrogen bomb to France.
France shared it with Israel and Iraq.
Israel helped South Africa (which has since dropped out of the "nuclear club").
India illegally re-directed plutonium from a U.S.-Canadian reactor.
China gave early guidance to Pakistan, as did a Pakistani who stole sensitive centrifuge information from his employer in the Netherlands.
Pakistan helped Libya, North Korea and probably Iran get nuclear programs underway.
North Korea got into the "daisy chain" by helping Syria, and North Korea has hosted Iranians at its missile launches.
Stephens quotes an L.A. Times 2003 report about so many North Koreans working on nuclear and missile projects in Iran that a resort on the Caspian Sea is set aside for their exclusive use.
