After OBL, Can US Seize Pakistans Nukes?
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The Arms Control & Disarmament Center of Strategic Technology Resources [STR], an independent policy research facility, held an open briefing in Islamabad, 14 May 2011. Pakistani media, accredited foreign diplomats and researchers from various Pakistani universities were in attendance.
The briefing aimed to provide a technical answer to the question: Are Pakistans nuclear weapons and delivery systems and secure today in the wake of the uncertainty and fear prevailing in the country in the aftermath of the US Abbottabad military incursion inside Pakistan on 2 May 2011.
Questions were being raised in the media and general public about the safety and security of Pakistans nuclear assets. After having studied this issue, STR shared the following conclusions in the briefing given by its CEO, Dr. Shireen Mazari.
Her key point was this: once again Pakistans civilian nuclear facilities, all operating under IAEA safeguards, have been checked and found safe repeatedly. The latest IAEA endorsement to this effect came on 23 April 2011 from the visiting IAEA Deputy Director General of the Department of Nuclear Safety Denis Flory. Mr. Flory pointed out that Pakistan was the 10th largest contributor to the Nuclear Security Fund, contributing $1.16 million.
What is of concern to many in Pakistan, especially after 2 May 2011, is whether the US or any other power or non-state actor could access and take over Pakistans nuclear weapons or destroy them. The author explains why her answer is NO.
And despite propaganda to the contrary, the author says that non-state actors are not interested in nuclear weapons nor do they need them.
Her analysis of why the United States is incapable of physically attacking Pakistani nuclear weapons is the crux of this report and provides insights never discussed before in
public.
Click here to open the policy brief Can United States Seize Pakistans Nukes? in PDF format.
THE ARTICAL IS TAKEN FROM A PAK NEWS WEBSITE.
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Click here to open the policy brief Can United States Seize Pakistans Nukes? in PDF format
The Arms Control & Disarmament Center of Strategic Technology Resources [STR], an independent policy research facility, held an open briefing in Islamabad, 14 May 2011. Pakistani media, accredited foreign diplomats and researchers from various Pakistani universities were in attendance.
The briefing aimed to provide a technical answer to the question: Are Pakistans nuclear weapons and delivery systems and secure today in the wake of the uncertainty and fear prevailing in the country in the aftermath of the US Abbottabad military incursion inside Pakistan on 2 May 2011.
Questions were being raised in the media and general public about the safety and security of Pakistans nuclear assets. After having studied this issue, STR shared the following conclusions in the briefing given by its CEO, Dr. Shireen Mazari.
Her key point was this: once again Pakistans civilian nuclear facilities, all operating under IAEA safeguards, have been checked and found safe repeatedly. The latest IAEA endorsement to this effect came on 23 April 2011 from the visiting IAEA Deputy Director General of the Department of Nuclear Safety Denis Flory. Mr. Flory pointed out that Pakistan was the 10th largest contributor to the Nuclear Security Fund, contributing $1.16 million.
What is of concern to many in Pakistan, especially after 2 May 2011, is whether the US or any other power or non-state actor could access and take over Pakistans nuclear weapons or destroy them. The author explains why her answer is NO.
And despite propaganda to the contrary, the author says that non-state actors are not interested in nuclear weapons nor do they need them.
Her analysis of why the United States is incapable of physically attacking Pakistani nuclear weapons is the crux of this report and provides insights never discussed before in
public.
Click here to open the policy brief Can United States Seize Pakistans Nukes? in PDF format.
THE ARTICAL IS TAKEN FROM A PAK NEWS WEBSITE.
