The Pakistani leaders who denied for years that scientists at the country’s secret A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories were peddling advanced nuclear technology must have been averting their eyes from a most conspicuous piece of evidence: the laboratory’s own sales brochure, quietly circulated to aspiring nuclear weapons states and a network of nuclear middlemen around the world.
It’s just so hard for parodists anymore. The top secret lab with a sales brochure is a staple of Nickelodeon cartoons. Unlike A. Q. Kahn Research Laboratories, I would never be able to get away with such a trope.