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| As the lies come crashing down | |
| 2011-02-12 | |
| In the midst of the political turmoil engulfing Egypt and much of the Arab world, last month's revelation that Pakistan has doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal over the past four years has been largely ignored. Nuclear proliferation analysts from the Federation of American Scientists and the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) assess that since 2006, Pakistan has increased the size of its nuclear arsenal from 30-60 atomic bombs to approximately 110. That makes Pakistan the world's fifth largest nuclear power ahead of Britain and France. As for delivery systems, according to The Washington Post, Pakistan has developed nuclear-capable land- and air-launched cruise missiles. Its Shaheen II missile, with a range of 2,400 kilometers, is about to go into operational deployment. On Wednesday, Pakistan test-fired its new Hatf- VII nuclear-capable cruise missile with a 600-kilometer range. The Obama administration has been silent on Pakistan's nuclear proliferation activities. As ISIS President David Albright said to the Washington Post, "The administration is always trying to keep people from talking about this knowledgeably. They're always trying to downplay the numbers [of Pakistan's nuclear warheads] and insisting that 'it's smaller than you think.'"
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| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Pakistanis are great craftsmen. For many years some our best surgical instruments are made in Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-02-12 22:57 |
| #5 The P-1, isn't it immuno-deficient to the stuxnet virus? Utterly amazing that it worked out that way, Nimble Spemble, just as Stuxnet appeared in the wild! ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-12 21:54 |
| #4 The P-1, isn't it immuno-deficient to the stuxnet virus? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-02-12 19:49 |
| #3 How are Pakistani maintenance skills? In other words, how many haven't rusted through in key places, rendering them unusable? Apparently their centrifuges weren't all that well built, according to that New York Times story back in January that revealed almost all about the Stuxnet virus. "But the United States and its allies ran into the same problem the Iranians have grappled with: the P-1* is a balky, badly designed machine. When the Tennessee laboratory shipped some of its P-1's to England, in hopes of working with the British on a program of general P-1 testing, they stumbled, according to nuclear experts. " 'They failed hopelessly,' one recalled, saying that the machines proved too crude and temperamental to spin properly." * The P-1 is the design based on the plans Dr. A. Q. Khan stole from the Dutch back in the 1970s, which he then sold on to Libya, Iran and North Korea. The particular P-1s in the NYT story are the ones Col. Khadaffi turned over to the U.S. as part of his entire nuclear development program following the American response to 9/11. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-12 17:03 |
| #2 So this came from Wikileaks? Or is it too scary for them? Or do they just leak stuff to advance their causes? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-02-12 15:15 |
| #1 plus, if a couple are sold or lost people are less likely to notice. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-02-12 15:15 |