Former CIA officer Richard Barlow revealed that the proposed joint covert operation by India and Israel to bomb Pakistan's Kahuta nuclear facility in the early 1980s to halt Islamabad's atomic ambition could have "solved a lot of problems."

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. "So a nine-month-long investigation, invading our marriage all over Washington, making everybody think that I was some kind of a spy or had done some horrible security thing. It was all found to be completely fabricated. And I was called in and given my top secret clearance back, but they refused to put me back in my job," the former CIA officer added. World News | My Life Was Destroyed for Exposing Pakistan's Nuclear Secrets: Ex-CIA Officer Barlow.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Barlow explained that two key US laws, the Solarz Amendment and the Pressler Amendment, were designed to restrict aid to nations engaged in nuclear weapons development. World News | US Ignored Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Development Despite Repeated Warnings: Ex-CIA Officer Richard Barlow.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. In an interview with ANI, Barlow, a former CIA member who was part of the intelligence agency as a counterproliferation officer during Pakistan's clandestine nuclear activities in the 1980s, detailed how Khan's network provided critical gas centrifuge technology and possibly nuclear weapons plans to Iran in the early 1990s, accelerating Tehran's programme by decades. World News | Pakistan's Nuclear Ambitions Were Aimed at Countering India, but Turned into 'Islamic Bomb': Ex-CIA Officer Barlow.