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Do the Taliban have something worse than the Covid virus? NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!
NTI org ^ | November 2019 | NTI

Posted on 08/13/2021 7:46:26 PM PDT by hapnHal

Nuclear Weapons!!

In the mid-1970s Pakistan embarked upon the uranium enrichment route to acquire a nuclear weapons capability. Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in May 1998, shortly after India's nuclear tests, declaring itself a nuclear weapon state. Pakistan currently possesses a growing nuclear arsenal, and remains outside both the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). It also is the sole country blocking negotiations of the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT).

Capabilities Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris characterize Pakistan as having, "the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile." [1] According to the SIPRI 2018 Yearbook, Pakistan possesses between 150 and 160 nuclear weapons. [2] Pakistan has stockpiled approximately 3.4 ± 0.4 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU), and produces enough HEU for perhaps 10 to 15 warheads per year. Pakistan also has a stockpile of about 280 kg of weapons-grade plutonium . In addition, the Chashma reprocessing plant that began operations in 2015 is thought to have expanded Pakistan’s plutonium production capability by 50-100 kg per year

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To: hapnHal

The Taliban has something better. They now have control of the biggest poppy-producing country in the world...and that gives them tons of cash for whatever they want to do.


21 posted on 08/14/2021 2:45:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Suppose the question is whether or not we learned anything from 9/11 and/or were we incapable of remembering it.

Extraordinarily violent, evil people plotted and executed a plan to kill citizens and destroy centers of our government.

They hate us and want us dead. They are willing to act on their hatred. Nothing has changed with them since 9/11.

We can leave Afghanistan after 20 years, but we damn well better expect that we will still need to fight them. They’ve recaptured lost ground, will likely gain power and resources. I don’t see this as a matter peace negotiations will ever solve. Bet on periodic air strikes and other ongoing missions.


22 posted on 08/14/2021 7:51:02 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: hapnHal

The Taliban can barely figure out how to work an RPG. Lets worry about something that might really happen. 🙄


23 posted on 08/14/2021 8:14:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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