It was during a visit to Islamabad last October, however, that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage provided Musharraf with the CIA's evidence of the nuclear smuggling ring run by Khan, according to Pakistani officials.

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The physics machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, is a 17-mile hollow ring underneath Switzerland and France built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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