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| Soon, Pakistan could have more nuclear weapons than every country except America and Russia |
| 2015-08-27 |
| At the rate Pakistan is building nuclear weapons, it could have the world's third-largest nuclear stockpile within five to 10 years, a new report by two American think tanks projects. The study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center suggests that Pakistan, driven by a fear of India, its nuclear-armed nemesis next door, may be building 20 nuclear warheads a year, which could result in the country possessing a total of at least 350 nuclear weapons within a decade. Right now, analysts estimate Pakistan has about 120 nuclear warheads. Some, such as Mansoor Ahmed, a nuclear expert at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, think the new report is "overblown." Still, if its predictions are proven true, Pakistan will soon have the third-biggest nuclear arsenal on Earth -- though still well behind Russia's 7,500 and America's 7,100. That means Pakistan would have more nukes than France, China, the U.K., India, Israel, and North Korea. Today, Pakistan is believed to have the world's sixth-largest stockpile. "What the world must understand," Ahmed told The Washington Post, "is that nuclear weapons are part of Pakistan's belief system." |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #7 Must mean the Nuke-armed Pakistan under threat of ISIS-Taliban Alliance, or in altern ISIS takeover of the Taliban + aligned. 'Tis in line wid AYMAN ZAWAHIRI'S call for Radical Islam to attack + takeover already Nuke-armed Russia, China, + India, + for Muslim nations to dev or acquire their own Nukes, SO THAT ISLAM'S OR RADICAL ISLAM'S "FINAL VICTORY" IS ASSURED = PRE-ORDAINED NO MATTER HOW MANY CONVENTIONAL OR NUKE BOMBS THE WEST = JUDOECHRISTIAN/NON-MUSLIM WORLD DROPS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, + NO MATTER HOW MANY MUSLIMS ARE KILLED FROM SAME. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-08-27 22:30 |
| #6 It's fun to build more nukes than China To give your big sister angina; To show off your ammo, To keep shouting "BLAMMO!" ...And that's how I picked up this shiner. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-27 21:17 |
| #5 Too bad india has to worry about china too |
| Posted by: chris 2015-08-27 20:27 |
| #4 Time for India to 'get busy' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-08-27 15:52 |
| #3 "What the world must understand," Ahmed told The Washington Post, "is that nuclear weapons are part of Pakistan's belief system." "...along with martyrdom" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-08-27 14:19 |
| #2 If oil prices return to normal, Saudi Arabia would gladly pay a few billion to take any excess off Pakistan's hands. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-27 13:31 |
| #1 Pakistan has a decade? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-27 13:20 |