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| India-Pakistan |
| The babble about loose nukes |
| 2007-11-12 |
| By Ejaz Haider In the middle of Pakistan’s political crisis, one question “coursing through Washington” — more through the western media, in fact — is whether Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is safe; or will remain so, the scare being this decade’s equivalent of “the Russians are coming!”. Considering that Pakistan put in place a C2 (command and control) system for its strategic forces in February 2000, more than three years before India did, what should one make of this alarm in the West? |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring! General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-12 13:07 |
| #2 I have another suggestion. If a potential hostile looks set to lose control of its WMDs, the whole country should be nuked into radioactive glass. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-12 09:41 |
| #1 Here's my proposal: Distribute them evenly across Pakistan in heavily fortified underground bunkers. When it looks like the country is about to fall to the bad guys, call the US military to come get them. If for some strange reason they can't get there in time, detonate them. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-11-12 02:18 |