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| 'Pak may slip over N-weapons to Taliban for use against India' |
| 2010-04-23 |
| WASHINGTON: Pakistan may slip over nuclear weapons to the Taliban for use against India in the event of escalated tension or war between the two neighbours, a non-proliferation US commission has said. "If something broke out in Kashmir that reignited the vitriol between India and Pakistan, that could be an incident that could cause someone to make the decision. "We don't want to use these weapons, but we're going to let our surrogate Taliban have access to these weapons and they'll do our dirty work," Bob Graham, head of US Commission on the Prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism told US lawmakers at a Congressional hearing. Graham was responding to questions from anxious lawmakers who expressed concern over the safety and security of nuclear weapons in Pakistan at a hearing convened by the House Homeland Security Committee. "I think one of our recommendations was to work with India and Pakistan to develop some fail-safe procedures. Unlike, the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, where although we were strong adversaries and had the capability of destroying each other. "We understood that we didn't want to allow a misstep or an accidental event to become the ignition for such a war. So we set up the red phone in the Oval Office and a whole protocol," Graham said referring to the report of the commission released early this year. "None of that exists between India and Pakistan. I have felt that this may be an area in which the US and Russia together, since we developed these protocols for our own benefit and the world's benefit, might work together with India and Pakistan to try to get them to develop," he said. "I was encouraged that within the last month India and China have started to develop some of those fail-safe procedures. But there's almost nothing that has been done in a similar vein between the real adversaries, which are India and Pakistan," Graham said. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #17 TOPIX > NUCLEAR WAR MAY START IN SOUTH ASIA OR MIDDLE EAST. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-23 22:59 |
| #16 Have played that game, won't share the shortlist. Sure the pros here and elsewhere have a bit more thorough game board than me. Its just that missiles can be tracked to a country where an alternative delivery means, as CrazyFool said, creates enough doubt it would be difficult politically to pull out the sledgehammer even if there is a video with the dudes flat out telling who they are and where they are from may not be enough. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-04-23 21:27 |
| #15 This will be INDJUH'S THIRD NIGHTMARE MIL SCENARIO ala 2012, in addition to * CHINA sending PLA troops to help "little brother" PAK in case of any new INDO-PAK MIL CONFLICT. * CHIN quickly sending in ELITE AIRBORNE-MECH, SPECOPS FORCES during SINO-INDIAN WAR to CUTOFF INDIA'S NE CORRIDOR [Siliguri]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-23 19:37 |
| #14 RJ: i wont comment openly, but i have seen studies on your question done by university students that give some pretty scary answers. there are several scenarios that are not being defended against that would be devastating. as a certain professor from Berkley once said, "Just one nuclear bomb, even a small one, can totally ruin your whole day" |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-04-23 19:35 |
| #13 Miami is closest to the launch site in Venezuela, the Cubans in Miami are most likely to overthrow Castro's socialist nirvana in Cuba after his death, and it's full of Joooos Iran wants to exterminate. Trifecta. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-23 19:34 |
| #12 a ground burst may do only 1/4 the damage as a proper air burst, but it is my (non-expert)understanding that it causes much more fallout. in the long run that would be a bigger win for the terrorists. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-04-23 19:31 |
| #11 OK consensus is my Burg friends like Redneck, so OK I'll stay the same nym, for now, it's still under thought, but I'm leaning back this way, right now ................................................. On to comments, I fear the Taliban, they're NOT sane, if they do nuke somewhere in America I don't think Obumble can backwater fast enough to prevent the Pakiwakis from glowing in the dark for the next Century or so. Mainly because if he tries He'll be an Ex-Pres as quick s congress can re-convene, (Assuming he survives) that one caveat makes me think the target will NOT be DC, as the Pakis know who's on their side, But I'll bet it's a port somewhere. (Airlines are under very close scrutiny) Maybe Miami so Castro can invade, but there are more Cubans here than in Cuba so maybe not? OK academic exercise, which American (Or other Nations) port city would help the Pakiwackis more when it vanishes? Any ideas? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-04-23 19:28 |
| #10 The Pakistani jihadists would use any such weapon against the US rather than India. They believe that the Hindus are cowards and will be enslaved anyway. |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-04-23 16:56 |
| #9 You mean missiles are not the sole delivery system? Somebody get george clooney on the line! Yes, but a nuke will "only" do a quarter the damage if it's a ground burst as compared with an air burst, so I guess they don't have much to worry about. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-23 15:40 |
| #8 And I think AL-Q would rather strike the USA. India would strike back - OBumbles would rather simply bow deeper. I don't know, CrazyFool... India hasn't done anything except end negotiations on this'n'that the last several times the ISI sponsored major terror attacks -- Mumbai, anyone? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-23 14:26 |
| #7 It's Bush's fault... After 911 Pashtunistan should have become a radioactive slag heap! End of story. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-04-23 13:54 |
| #6 Plausible deniability, even paper-thin, would be enough for the UN Community to not actually do anything. And I think AL-Q would rather strike the USA. India would strike back - OBumbles would rather simply bow deeper. He probably wouldn't get away with it but it'll give the U.N. and the media enough time to rush in with excuses. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-23 13:19 |
| #5 You mean missiles are not the sole delivery system? Somebody get george clooney on the line! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-04-23 10:57 |
| #4 yeah, plausible deniability for the Paks....right. a nation of soon-to-be martyrs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-23 09:55 |
| #3 And meanwhile the X-37B is overhead sprinkling powdered pork rinds over the entire ME. They're all unclean now... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-04-23 09:42 |
| #2 I wouldn't be surprised if they would take the nuke and use it to destroy The Great Satan instead. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-23 09:39 |
| #1 if these Idiots actualy detonte a nuke in India, they will vanish from the face of the earth. I don't want the Indians hurt, but in the same thought this would END Pakistan, once and for all. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-04-23 09:18 |