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2007-12-29 India-Pakistan

Pentagon says Pakistan nuclear arsenal secure

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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 SPACEWAR > PAKISTAN IS A FAILING NUCLEAR POWER. Not exactly - YET - but defini gettin' there.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-29 00:04|| 2007-12-29 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm wondering if there is some way their nukes might just 'happen' to spontaneously detonate in their storage locations? Some kind of red-green wire maintainance 'accident' or something?

Posted by Glenmore 2007-12-29 00:37|| 2007-12-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Define the meaning of secure please!

Posted by 3dc 2007-12-29 01:09|| 2007-12-29 01:09|| Front Page Top

#4 "At this team, we have no reason for concern."

Same could have been said on the E-Ring of the Pentagon, 0915 hrs on 9/11. Hardly reassurning. Weasel words, all.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-12-29 02:05|| 2007-12-29 02:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder how sophisticated and secure the safing system is for Pak nukes. A lot of things in sequence must happen for US nukes to go off.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-12-29 02:44|| 2007-12-29 02:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope "no need for concern" means that there's a SSBN targeting the storage facilities 24/7.

Posted by Canuckistan 2007-12-29 04:14|| 2007-12-29 04:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I seriously wonder how well-maintained the things are. It's my understanding that without regular and rigorous maintenance by well-trained technicians, the things are simply shiny, radioactive paperweights.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-29 06:17|| 2007-12-29 06:17|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder how sophisticated and secure the safing system is for Pak nukes. A lot of things in sequence must happen for US nukes to go off.

There was a thread around here sometime back. The Pakistanis weren't allowed access to US safety-tech. There was worry it could fall into the hands of the Chineese. I can't understand why we'd worry about a nuclear power having the latest in failsafe stuff. Urban legend sez the technology was purposely leaked to the USSR in the sixties for both sides peace of mind.

Someone here knows this.... I can't remember the poster tho.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-29 06:37|| 2007-12-29 06:37|| Front Page Top

#9 That's very reassuring.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-29 08:00|| 2007-12-29 08:00|| Front Page Top

#10 I can't understand why we'd worry about a nuclear power having the latest in failsafe stuff.

What the Chinese have, they can reverse engineer.

What they can reverse engineer, they can construct disabling procedures for.

And those procedures can and will be passed along to others.

Posted by lotp 2007-12-29 08:02|| 2007-12-29 08:02|| Front Page Top

#11 As recently as 8 months ago, Pakistan's longest range missile was the Ghauri-III, which only has a range of 2500 km.

This still would not threaten the West, especially not the U.S., which
at its closest point is over 11,000 km away; however, it would be able to reach Jerusalem, which is approximately 2200 km away.

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Posted by LeightonW">LeightonW 2007-12-29 13:00|| leightonweese.squarespace.com]">[leightonweese.squarespace.com] 2007-12-29 13:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Be nice just to take those nukes and give them to Iran to keep...unpacked of course.

Posted by Slappy 2007-12-29 13:38|| 2007-12-29 13:38|| Front Page Top

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