Question

A scientist from this non-Malaysian country illegally transferred its military secrets, particularly the P-2, using the Malaysian firm SCOPE and the BBC China cargo ship. The United States restricted aid to this country first under the Symington Amendment and then under the Pressler and Glenn Amendments due to its development of a facility in Kahuta. One leader of this nation gave a speech saying that he would (*) “eat grass (10[2])and even (10[2])go hungry” (10[1])in order to build nuclear weapons tested in the Ras Koh hills. This country’s two Chagai tests of a weapon designed by Munir Ahmad Khan and A.Q. Khan were a response to another country’s Pokhran-II and Smiling Buddha tests. For 10 points, name this country that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto encouraged to develop nuclear weapons in its rivalry with India. ■END■

ANSWER: Pakistan [or Islamic Republic of Pakistan; or Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World History>
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