"China has provided Pakistan with both missile as well as nuclear know-how," the transcript said.

It has also become clear that Western leaders are coming together on using aid to stem the expected flow of nuclear know-how from the ex-Soviet states.

We have not transferred nuclear know-how to any country, nor do we intend to do so.

Cut to Libya, where Qaddafi has purchased nuclear know-how and fissionable material from corrupt Pakistani scientists.

Washington can try to find a better use for Russia's nuclear know-how.

The spread of missile technology and nuclear know-how seems likely to pose a greater threat to future U.S. security than confrontation between the superpowers.

It has little to gain by sacrificing the nation's must strategic asset - its nuclear know-how, the teachers of a new generation of atomic scientists.

Other members of his government, however, saw considerable advantages in developing a European nuclear deterrent, based on pooling British and French nuclear know-how and resources.

But doing a delicate balancing act in a difficult situation where the U.S. needs Chinese restraint in selling arms and nuclear know-how.

Given the rapid growth in energy demand, we need to develop a realistic percentage of renewables and at the same time exploit Europe's nuclear know-how.