Posted on 03/26/2017 9:49:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sandwiched between Iran, China, India and Afghanistan, Pakistan lives in a complicated neighborhood with a variety of security issues. One of the nine known states known to have nuclear weapons, Pakistans nuclear arsenal and doctrine are continually evolving to match perceived threats. A nuclear power for decades, Pakistan is now attempting to construct a nuclear triad of its own, making its nuclear arsenal resilient and capable of devastating retaliatory strikes.
Pakistans nuclear program goes back to the 1950s, during the early days of its rivalry with India. President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto famously said in 1965, If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own........
Pakistan began the process of accumulating the necessary fuel for nuclear weapons, enriched uranium and plutonium. The country was particularly helped by one A. Q. Khan, a metallurgist working in the West who returned to his home country in 1975 with centrifuge designs and business contacts necessary to begin the enrichment process. Pakistans program was assisted by European countries and a clandestine equipment-acquisition program designed to do an end run on nonproliferation efforts. Outside countries eventually dropped out as the true purpose of the program became clear, but the clandestine effort continued.
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Nukes and unstable countries. What could go wrong?
Pakistan IS the “security issue.”
Very stupid we let, maybe even helped India and Pakistan get nukes.
Once Pakistan had them, India had to have them.
It is the same reason that Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other Middle-East countries are gearing up because of Iran’s program.
I don’t like nuclear proliferation, but I think Taiwan probably needs a few to be able to back down China.
It is a sad and scary world we are in. That said, we haven’t yet had another World War due to the threat of even the world leaders and their families all dying in the next one.
First world better get ready for “nuclear refugees.”
And a couple of decades after that, for “decontamination colonialism.”
“I dont like nuclear proliferation, but I think Taiwan probably needs a few to be able to back down China.”
Taiwan needs one Trident with full complement of nukes parked somewhere that China could not find them.
Smelly Pakistan AND awful-smelling India are both absolutely nuts, crazy and hate each other so much they don’t care about anybody or anything except killing each other and if they destroy the world, no big deal.
India and Pakistan are both equally stinking $hi#-holes, populated by disgusting idiots.
Turd-world countries both.
Taiwan doesn’t need them, all they need is the ability to deliver a few bunker-buster burrowing bombs in the vicinity of the Seven Gorges Dam. That’s better than nukes, from a destructive potential standpoint.
One can see that they will use Nork as the One-World driver IF they can contain it. If they can't, then it's gog and magog time.
Nork and Moose are both cults, but Moon god isn't actually here ... whereas Kim So Fat is here, he ain't healthy, and he makes Jim Jones look like Aimee Semple McPherson.
Fat - knowing he would make it through the first exchange - would happily take out half his population (12M) for half of Seoul (12M).
When you consider how much Bobo hates Pres. Trump, and yet was willing to pass him the torch in the limo with one warning: North Korea.
India and Pakistan are both equally stinking $hi#-holes, populated by disgusting idiots.
Turd-world countries both.
Amen brother!
I was once working at Tech convention at the MGM in Las Vegas in the 90s and I had my first high caste Indian incident. I was in a convention center restroom and I couldn't get the (then somewhat newly invented) auto flush toilet to flush after pissing into it. Some idiot engineer didn't add a flush button because we all know electronics never fail. Like a monkey with fire, I wasted 3 to 4 minutes trying to make it flush and then gave up, washed up, and walked out.
I get maybe 30 to 40 feet down a crowded corridor outside of the bathroom when an Indian man comes running after me and yelling. He goes on about how I need to flush the toilet, how disgusting it is, and what a pig I am. Experiencing white-hot rage and fantasizing about delivering an epic beat-down I just said "Come with me." I walked past him into the reatrom and he was dumb enough and arrogant enough to follow me.
Once in the restroom I opened the stall door of the useless, high-tech, no-flush toilet and asked him in the meanest, menacing father voice I could muster "Please, show me how to flush it." The 15 or so men in the restroom were now paying close attention to the scene. The lord-of-the-manor Brahmin went in and tried to flush the toilet for a hand-flapping minute or two and then admitted defeat.
As he walked out of the stall I ended the encounter by getting nose to nose with him and saying "I didn't flush the toilet because I couldn't flush the toilet. I can only imagine that you are a high caste Brahmin for thinking it was appropriate to berate me in public. This is America and nobody gives a damn what your caste is. Keep it up and someone is going to kick the shit out of your rude ass. Also, my people, the English, invented the flush toilet and I find it ironic that someone from shitty India, one of the poorest, filthiest places on the planet, feels that he can lecture me on hygiene."
I kept in his face and staring him down until he broke eye contact. Then I told him "Get the f**k out of here before I change my mind and use you to face-flush that toilet." He scampered out and then I washed my hands in a totally silent bathroom and went out to work.
I have no dislike for Indians in particular; I’ve had some as friends and many that I like (I worked in tech in a major east coast market) and I’m sure this is true of you too- but I detest rude people who go off publicly based on erroneous assumptions. Well done.
And screw all of the class/caste system stuff. As you’ve pointed out- this is America. We don’t do that here. Rags-to-riches social mobility is the American Dream.
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