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2007-11-11 China-Japan-Koreas

India Helping Taiwan with Nuke Project, Report Claims

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Posted by john frum 2007-11-11 13:26|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Taiwan should have been armed with nuclear weapons decades ago.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-11 14:18|| 2007-11-11 14:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Hindi memo to China: UP YOURS!

Wouldn't it be grand to have Taiwan admit its possession of numerous nuclear weapons and then declare independence on the eve of Beijing's olympics? Talk about stealing someone's thunder! The Chinese Mandarins would be all aquiver with impotent rage.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-11 14:53|| 2007-11-11 14:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Sadly I think the report is bogus.

Fernandes (a former catholic seminarian turned trade union activist) was defence minister in 1998 and did not even know that nuclear tests were being prepared. He found out when the Indian PM told him afterwards.

There is serious bad blood between him and Sonia Gandhi and he is unlikely to have any current influence within the nuclear establishment. Not enough to arrange transfer of tech or to act as a go-between, Sonia Gandhi would never allow it.

A personal friend of Burma's Aung San Su Kyi, He is a vindictive SOB if crossed and has no love for the Chinese at all.

Posted by john frum 2007-11-11 15:03|| 2007-11-11 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I just don't see Taiwan as needing help to develop nukes and I seriously doubt an Indian parliamentarian would have any useful knowledge anyway, except perhaps a rolodex with names.

Personally I believe Taiwan has had nukes for some time but have kept it silent as a public annoucement would make life even more difficult with their large neighbor.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-11-11 18:27|| 2007-11-11 18:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Possibly the Chinese trying to deflect attention from their supply of nuclear weapons to Pakistan

Posted by john frum 2007-11-11 18:35|| 2007-11-11 18:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Even the rumor will rock some chicoms

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-11-11 18:42|| http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm] 2007-11-11 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 We might be missing the obvious. What if Taiwan buys already built nukes from India, on condition that the Indians secure those nukes, and only provide them to Taiwan on demand?

Taiwan knows it is crawling with mainland spies and sympathizers, so that it would be very, very difficult to develop or protect nukes there. But if nukes can be delivered to Taiwan, designed to be placed into Taiwanese missiles, it is the best of all worlds.

Taiwan can have a buttload of missiles *capable* of carrying nukes as well, without arousing any suspicions as long as they seem to be conventional. Just take out the conventional warhead and slap on a nuclear one.

Until actual hostilities have commenced, India should have free access to Taiwan, both by air and by water. They would probably have a warship in the vicinity with the nuke on board, which the Taiwanese could pick up in an hour or two.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-11 21:56|| 2007-11-11 21:56|| Front Page Top

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