[AngrySpud]

In hindsight, maybe it was a mistake to repeatedly hold back India when she and Pakistan got into their many shooting matches.

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[milestogo]

As investigators unravel the mysteries of the North Korean, Iranian and now the Libyan nuclear projects, Pakistan — and those it empowered with knowledge and technology they are now selling on their own — has emerged as the intellectual and trading hub of a loose network of hidden nuclear proliferators.

Dr. Khan, a fervent nationalist, has condemned the system that limits legal nuclear knowledge to the five major nuclear powers, or that ignored Israel's nuclear weapon while focusing on the fear of an Islamic bomb. "All Western countries," he was once quoted as saying, "are not only the enemies of Pakistan but in fact of Islam."

It started as a quid pro quo with an old patron: China. A declassified State Department memo, obtained by the National Security Archive in Washington, concluded that China, sometime after its first bomb tests in the mid-1960's, had provided Pakistan technology for "fissile material production and possibly also nuclear device design."

Iran-nukes ping..

[servantoftheservant]

China --> Pakistan --> North Korea --> Iran...

Who's the root problem? China.

[EGPWS]

The 1970 treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons was devised to control which countries could possess and pursue nuclear arms. It allowed the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China to keep all their weapons but required all other signatories to forswear nuclear arms. North Korea, Iran and Libya all signed, allowing I.A.E.A. inspectors limited visits to verify that countries producing nuclear fuel were truly using "atoms for peace." Pakistan and India never signed, nor did Israel.

And the inept policies of the U.N. are still to this day promoted by the U.N. and are still ineffectual as ever.

[knighthawk]

FYI

[keri]

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[Brian Allen]

<< Some in the administration say they think other nations may follow Libya's calculations and abandon their programs voluntarily. But there are doubters.

"Its a fine theory," said "a top nonproliferation strategist in the administration," recently. "The question for 2004 is whether the mullahs or Kim Jong Il buy into it." >>

Anyone who believes that Libya's tyrant "abandoned his programs voluntarily" -- or that every one of the others will not one way or another follow either his example, Osama bin Ladin's -- or Saddam Hussayn's -- has been smoking too much weed and also believes Mr Dean will pick up 35% of the Electoral College in November.

Best ones -- Brian

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