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2011-11-06 India-Pakistan

Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads

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Posted by Water Modem 2011-11-06 02:51|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "Don't hit that bump, Amir!"
"What bu..."

Posted by Skidmark 2011-11-06 04:22|| 2011-11-06 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Dense Pak prevails.

Posted by S 2011-11-06 07:34|| 2011-11-06 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 ...plausible deniability ensues. Ooops.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-06 08:09|| 2011-11-06 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe one of the nuclear powers could mount an "Italian Job", to snatch one of their weapons. This would scare the poop out of them, but the weapon could be quietly de-milled and disappeared.

The important thing is to slap them hard with unknowns, then carefully monitor what happens.

Eventually, let evidence surface that one of the more powerful of the Pak terrorist organizations has the bomb, and imply that unless they are exterminated ASAP, they might set it off.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-06 09:04|| 2011-11-06 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's just assume they do have the bomb. Now we can start with the preemptive strikes.

(We made a deal with the Ruskies to downsize our arsenal, so we have to get rid of the things somehow.)

Posted by rammer 2011-11-06 11:02|| 2011-11-06 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know.
The idea of mushroom clouds over Washington DC or San Francisco just doesn't bother me as much as it used to.
Let it burn.

Posted by Winky Bucket3988 2011-11-06 11:41|| 2011-11-06 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Thin ice, Winky, thin ice. Careful.

AoS (moderator)

Posted by Steve White 2011-11-06 11:45|| 2011-11-06 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 So where do you live, Winky? Pakistan might need some recommendations for a possible alternative target. Maybe that'll bother you a little bit...

Posted by tu3031 2011-11-06 12:21|| 2011-11-06 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember, we're all in this together as Americans. Those of us on the front lines, those of us working our ass off (even on weekends), and those of us getting drunk and injecting ourselves with crystal meth before going off to vote. One NATION! Fuck yeah! (fist pump!)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-06 13:52|| 2011-11-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Winky: unfortunately the terrorists will only have a small number of nukes and probably can't be counted on to use it on the nonproductive areas. They'll probably want to hit a concentration of refineries or some shit like that.

I don't think we can go on like this, but as Brer Rabbit always says, we gots to make it, Uncle Remus. And I'm off to work.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-06 13:54|| 2011-11-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Ya know, if we were REALLY evil bastards and believed a nuclear Al-queada was imminent...

Well, there must be ways to cause Pakistans nukes to go off by accident right? They won't have safety measures and it's not like anybody would be around to contradict that Al-queada didn't actually attack the convoy and they set it off for whatever reason.

Cold-blooded I know, but the alternative seems so much worse for everyone.

Posted by Charles 2011-11-06 14:37|| 2011-11-06 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from US spy agencies, making the weapons more vulnerable to theft by Islamist militants

Be worried. B

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-06 15:35|| 2011-11-06 15:35|| Front Page Top

#13 making it easier for the ISI to transfer weapons to the terrorists and make it look like a theft.

Posted by Throtch Wittlesbach9134 2011-11-06 16:20|| 2011-11-06 16:20|| Front Page Top

#14 This pleases allah.

Posted by Knuckles Whomoper5851 2011-11-06 17:11|| 2011-11-06 17:11|| Front Page Top

#15 That was what the US was bribing them for, to keep that arsenal safe.

Posted by newc 2011-11-06 17:15|| 2011-11-06 17:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Throtch & Charles: cause & effect.

We have still not seen a world where Islam and nuclear weapons have truly intersected (obtaining, saber-rattling, and testing don't count).

Civilized (and not so civilized) countries might have been willing to show a little more forbearance when they could afford it. By now, I think most are feeling as if they've paid enough jizya and taken enough abuse.

I don't think grom is wrong. But in the end, I don't think Islam would win. Not advocating, just prognosticating.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-11-06 17:24|| 2011-11-06 17:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Iff the Taliban, etal. don't know about it already, they certainly know about it now.

VARIOUS > the US repor still has confidence in Islamabad's ability to keep the country's nukes secure despite this Artic.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-06 19:08|| 2011-11-06 19:08|| Front Page Top

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