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2008-06-14 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 WAFF.com OPED Thread > WILL THE US TAKE AWAY ALL OF PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-14 02:27|| 2008-06-14 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 We should have done it a long time ago, Joe. The world would be a safer place now.

Posted by Alaska Paul back home 2008-06-14 03:21|| 2008-06-14 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 AQ Khan has himself recently stated that Pakistan didn't have the ability to manufacture sewing needles. They've never built a tractor, or a high speed lathe.

After the 1998 tests at Chagai, U2 sampling planes detected Plutonium. Now Pakistan's reprocessing plant wasn't yet operational so that Pu had to come from somewhere.

Lo and behold, LLNL accuses LANL of contaminating the sample. Then it is claimed that the Pu actually came from India. Seems it must have drifted all the way from Rajasthan, after the underground Indian tests at Pokhran.
After some public Indian scorn at this claim, "contamination" is again proposed.
And surprise, surprise, the sample is now "lost".

When Gadaffi saw the writing on the wall and came clean, he handed over plans for CHICOM4, the 4th Chinese nuclear device (an actual deliverable missile warhead), complete with notes on fabrication in Urdu, all wrapped in a plastic bag from AQ Khan's dry cleaners in Rawalpindi.

Missile delivery systems seem to appear in Pakistan as if by magic. No development history or prior models. They have yet to build an automobile engine.

China has yet to be called up about its weapons proliferating to unstable states (like North Korea, which has just begun bicycle manufacturing, using imported Chinese technology).

Seems to me the risk prone arsenal is Chinese... stuff seems to be popping up everywhere...

Posted by john frum 2008-06-14 07:51|| 2008-06-14 07:51|| Front Page Top

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