PAKISTAN’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARSENAL SAFETY ENDANGERED by dr Subhash Kapila

may 26th, 2011 CE

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http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers46/paper4505.html

PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARSENAL SAFETY ENDANGERED

Dr Subhash Kapila 25/5/2011

Introductory Observations 

Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal safety has been a source of serious concern for the international community ever since Pakistan's nuclear arsenal came into existence. Initially, international concerns focused on the unreliability of Pakistan as a 'responsible stakeholder' in nuclear stability, Pakistan's propensity for conflict including nuclear conflict against India and nuclear weapons proliferation to 'rogue nations'.

Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal safety acquired menacing contours more significantly ever since 9/11when Pakistan emerged as the repository of nuclear weapon's proliferation and also the repository and citadel of Islamic Jihadi terrorism.

Osama Bin Laden's 9/11 was hatched, planned, and launched from the soil of Pakistan-Occupied Afghanistan and Pakistani soil itself and facilitated in a major way by Pakistan Army's notorious intelligence agency, the ISI.

The United States major unstated military concern ever since has been focused on the eventuality of Pakistani nuclear weapons or nuclear materiel's for making a 'dirty bomb' falling  into the hands of the various terrorist organizations affiliated to Pakistan Army's ISI..

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