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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues

By SusanUnPC on November 30, 2007 at 3:03 PM in Current Affairs, Pakistan

Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues

This is a report that Larry Johnson received and which was prepared for members of Congress. The report was written by Paul Kerr and Mary Beth Nikitin, Analysts in NonProliferation for the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service.

Below the fold, I have posted an image of the summary page of this report. The report is in PDF format (3.1 MB). SPECIAL THANKS to HoosierHoops who was the only regular I could find who could read the file, which had been prepared in Microsoft Publisher. HoosierHoops then converted the file to PDF format so that all of us can read it. (And thank you to PrchrLady for connecting me to HH.)

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NOTE: This image is just the summary page. This is the full report: Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues.

  • Kathleen

    Pakistan, Israel and India should all be pressured to sign onto the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. Israel started the Nuclear arms race in the Middle east. No way around this, that is unless you lie

  • wethornet

    o/t. breaking.

    news reports: guy walks into a campaign office of hillary clinton’s in new hampshire & takes hostages.

    local guy. known to police for past problems.

    some good news: he has released some hostages. woman. infant.

    no link. computer problems. saw it at msn.com

  • Philip Henika

    Susan:

    FAS’ Steven Aftergood frequently posts CRS reports in “Secrecy News” which are not readily available to the public. The CRS report on the AQ Khan network was posted in the November 26 issue.

    http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34248.pdf

    Philip

  • ybnormal

    Doesn’t this make us wonder, why would either India or Pakistan need a nuclear deterrant against the other, when they’re so close to each other right next door?

    Seems to me that prevailing winds would spread the fallout right back to the originating country.

    Then again, if we have human beings who are stupid enough to brew meth at the risk of blowing themselves up in their own kitchen, we could also have people stupid enough to nuke themselves.

  • ybnormal

    Double Whammy disaster news day.

    Amtrak slams into a parked freight train.

    Some guy straps what looks like a bomb to himself, and takes Hillary’s Rochester NY campaing office hostage. Funny thing, I might have missed it, but I don’t hear reporters calling him a terrorist.

    • ybnormal

      wrong Rochester; NH not NY

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      He reportedly went to a hardware store this morning and bought “railroad flares” and strapped those to himself. But some hostage expert on CNN said that — even if the FBI/ATF/police are nearly 100% sure that the bomb is fake — IF he attempts to leave the campaign office, they’ll shoot to kill. They can’t take any chance he could get outside near any other people and detonate a device. And, he might have a gun or other sharp instrument so has to be considered dangerous.

      ALSO: MSNBC released his name — and said he’s well-known to the local police and has a history of mental problems — so I Googled him. He has a recent police record:

      7:51 p.m. –Leeland Eisenberg, 46, of Milton Road, 16, is charged with two counts of stalking.

      – Rochester Police Log – 4/3/07 to 4/9/07
      Article Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
      http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/FOSTERS06/70420029/-1/NEWS18

      With the help of a resident who called to report a suspected drunken driver on Washington Street, police charged Leeland Eisenberg, 46, of 182 Milton Road, Apartment 16, Rochester with driving while intoxicated.

      – Seven arrested in downtown Rochester
      Article Date: Monday, June 11, 2007
      http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070611/FOSTERS01/106110226

      –

    • ybnormal

      Along that line, CBS News says:

      CBS station WBZ Radio’s Lana Jones learned that the man’s stepson reported to police that his stepfather had been drinking for two days. The son said his stepfather had strapped two road flares to his chest and told his son Friday morning that he was going to the Clinton campaign office. He reportedly told his stepson “to watch the news.”

      • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

        That’s sad. I’m listening to Chris Matthews who is being very touching in his description of a man under great stress who is mostly trying to get somebody to listen to him. Matthews said that sometimes people like that go to a bartender, a priest, or a politician.

        (The one thing they’re discussing that is troubling: That this might make campaign headquarters too security-conscious and keep people from just being able to drop into a campaign headquarters. Hope that doesn’t happen.)

        • Shirin

          Chris Matthews is being sensitive?!!! Wow!

        • ybnormal

          The pathos continues:
          Wolf Blitzer announced the man with the ‘bomb’ has been arrested. Then my wife tells me that a commentor on FDL said “the hostage surrendered”. the hostage?

          I always thought Wolf sounded like a horse race announcer. Anyway Wolfie now says that this guy had been calling the CNN Washington bureau saying he’d been trying unsuccessfully to get mental help. Further, that CNN didn’t report this until now because the guy could have watched it on the campaign office TV, and then found out something, I don’t know what.

          Would he have found out that he himself called CNN? Since he made the call, he already knew that didn’t he?

          • TeakwoodKite

            Pakistan ?

            • ybnormal

              SGOT (self generating open thread)

  • Mr.Murder

    Sixty Nukes is an accurate number?
    In ten year’s time, an average of six per year?

    These programs have the weapon and delivery systems sorted into components as a security item.

    Another reason the Niger forgeries were so damned obvious.

    How long before the names on the report are changed from ‘Pakistan’ to ‘Iran’ and used to start another war?

    • mudkitty

      It’s so embarrassing. But it’s also so much worse. It’s lethal – it’s fatal.

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