Pakistan has secretly built up nuclear arsenal

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 05/27/2002 | Zahid Hussain

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The disclosure raised the possibility that Pakistan could assemble more nuclear warheads than the estimated 30 to 50.

Thanks to Bubba Klinton. They probably laugh at a picture of the American stooge president everyday.

[Fish out of Water]

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[tet68]

If you think they are working hard in Paki, just imagine what it's like in Iraq!

Time is not on our side.

[b4its2late]

If they all nuke each other out of existence, do you think the weather will be better in the Northeast?

Just kidding.......... this is not good.

[uncbob]

If you think they are working hard in Paki, just imagine what it's like in Iraq!

Imagine what it would have been like is Israel hadn't taken out Iraq's Nuclear facilty in the 80s

[Tedmeister]

I watched Condi Rice on Fox Sunday and she said that they want Packi to close their borders to these Islamic Bastards who are murdering India's citizens. But at the same time our U.S. Borders are wide open and millions of illegal immigrants are invading our country! What's the difference?

[AM2000]

our U.S. Borders are wide open and millions of illegal immigrants are invading our country! What's the difference?

The intent of the "invaders".

[mhking]

Pakistan insisted that the missile tests were routine.

Timing...timing....timing....

[Dog Gone]

The only border that has ever been truly closed was in Berlin. Musharraf can do better, but asking him to do the impossible is a little unfair.

[Centurion2000]

If they all nuke each other out of existence, do you think the weather will be better in the Northeast?

Makes for a milder summer and some awesome sunsets I'll bet.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

This suggests to me a very high probability that some black market nuclear material has made its way to Pakistan. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that getting their hands on as much stuff as possible, by any means possible, by almost any price necessary, has been Pakistan's top priority. We can thus assume that they were the highest bidder for whatever stuff happened to be available, mostly from Russia. It is even conceivable that whichever scientists or military personnel in Russia that were involved in the transaction rationalized it as going to a legitimate state for their legitimate defense rather than to terrorists.

The really big question -- "the sum of all fears", if you will -- is whether or not everything that was BOUGHT for Pakistan was DELIVERED to Pakistan. My nightmare scenario has Al Qaida or some affiliated or front group serving as a "middleman" for this transaction, and skimming off some of the goods for their own purposes before delivering the material to Pakistan.

The biggest concern would be if they got their hands on some fresh Tritium. There is already some reason to fear that they might have gotten hold of one or more small tactical Russian nukes, but these would most likely be old duds unless recharged with fresh tritium. Again, the sellers of these devices might have rationalized what they are doing by thinking that without fresh tritium, the devices would be harmless, and tritium is so rare and expensive that the terrorists were unlikely to come into possession of any.

"Unlikely" may now have just become a little more likely, unfortunately.

[My Identity]

Passages from: Dangerous game of state-sponsored terror
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/689527/posts
Guardian (UK), May 25, 2002

Kasmir is seen as a Jihad

The dilemma for Gen Musharraf is that many of his army officers [in spite of large-scale purges] are still deeply sympathetic to the militants and the Kashmir cause ... The [Pakistan] army believes in the moral justice and diplomatic necessity of the Kashmir war... Khalid Khawaja, a retired ISI officer, [spoke] in chilling tones: "We have done the worst possible thing. We have been responsible for the miseries of our brothers and sisters because we didn't believe in God but we believed in Bush and Blair." ... The fight in Kashmir [is seen] as a legitimate jihad.

Musharraf is Ignored

It is clear Musharraf's promises are not being kept. Most of the militants [previously jailed] have been released without charge, among them the heads of groups listed as terrorist organisations by Britain and the US. Pakistan has allowed militants backed by its own intelligence agency to continue their war in Kashmir even though it threatens to plunge India and Pakistan into a devastating conflict.

Terrorists Still Active

Pakistani militants are still openly raising funds and training young fighters to cross into Kashmir to fight the Indian army. The ISI's Kashmir cell issues money and directions to militant groups. "Every jihadi has links with ISI," said a military source.

A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/635892/posts

A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/632731/posts
Atlantic Monthly, March 2002

From a conversation with Brigadier "Aman" Amanullah (ret),
formerly the chief of Pakistan's military intelligence in
Sind Province, which borders India and includes Pakistan's
biggest city and a cultural center, Karachi. Aman in 53.
Currently a liaison with Benazir Bhutto and the Paki military.

I told Aman that I was disturbed by the ease with which Pakistanis talk of nuclear war with India. Aman shook his head. "No," he said matter-of-factly. "This should happen. We should use the bomb. ... We should fire at them and take out a few of their cities - Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta," he said. "They should fire back and take Karachi and Lahore. Kill off a hundred or two hundred million people. They should fire at us and it would all be over. ... We should teach them a lesson. It would teach all of us a lesson. There is no future here...My children have no future. None of the children of Pakistan have a future. We are surrounded by nothing but war and suffering. Millions should die away."

[My Identity]

do you think the weather will be better in the Northeast

Fallout effects from Indi-Paki nuke exchange

And Map-a-Blast

[My Identity]

Film Footage of Actual Blasts
From a PBS site:

Operation Cue (500kb) Beginning in 1953 the Federal Civil Defense Adminstration, working with the Atomic Energy Commission, set up an atomic test program to investigate the effects of nuclear weapons on typical American homes and their furnishings.	Operation Castle (300kb) Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests, was conducted in the Marshall Islands in the spring of 1954. The 15 megaton Bravo detonation was over 1,000 times larger than Hiroshima.	Layer Cake Design (500kb) In Andrei Sakharov's Layer Cake design, several layers of light and heavy elements were alternated. High explosives surrounding the Layer Cake would be used to implode and ignite the nuclear core. The atomic explosion would then set off a fusion reaction in the deuterium.
Operation Cue (300kb) Each home was equipped with refrigerators, typical appliances, the kinds of food one would eat, from baby food to adult food, and were exposed to the blast.	Operation Castle (100kb) Operation Castle yielded more fallout than any of the other U.S. thermonuclear tests, contaminating military personnel and civilians on nearby islands.	Camp Desert Rock (900kb) Camp Desert Rock, Nevada - The U.S. military began using smaller blasts to learn how to fight a nuclear war. On April 22, 1952 approximately 2,000 Army personnel conducted maneuvers beneath the mushroom cloud of the 31-kiloton Charlie nuclear detonation.

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