Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the enemy within

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Steve Coll, the president of the New America Foundation and a South Asia expert, has raised the issue of the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in the wake of the assassination of the governor of most populous Punjab state by one of his bodyguards. It’s a question that comes up each time Pakistan is faced with a crisis whether it a major act of violence such as this or a political/economic meltdown or a sudden escalation of tensions with India obviously, but also the United States

Pakistan’s security establishment bristles at suggestions that it could be any less responsible than other states in defending its nuclear arsenal, and its leaders and experts have repeatedly said that the professional army is the ultimate guardian of such “national assets.’

But Coll in a blog at  The New Yorker says at some stage in a domestic insurgency when your own people are fighting you, the lines between the guerrillas and the security forces often get  blurred with dangerous consequences. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by two of her Sikh bodyguards in 1984 incensed by her decision to send the Indian army into the holiest Sikh shrine to flush out militants a few months before.

The Pakistani police officer who killed governor Salman Taseer was similarly no Lee Harvey Oswald, but a regular government employee who was apparently angry over the governor’s strident defence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that exposed deep rifts in Pakistani society.  Coll writes :

[i]At a certain point the violence of insurgency and counterinsurgency among people sharing language, geography, faith, and culture becomes so intimate that it is no longer possible to reliably vet friends from foes.[/i]

Pakistan’s growing nuclear stockpile – about which we wrote here – is under the lock and key of the military. Coll says the Punjab governor’s killing was a reminder that  one shouldn’t be too dismissive of the possibility of a breach in the nuclear security systems by an insider, however remote.

[i]Taseer’s betrayal should give pause to those officials in Washington who seem regularly to express complacency, or at least satisfaction, about the security of Pakistan’s arsenal.[/i]

The possibility of  subversion  is something that has repeatedly come up in the context of the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.  Former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson  spoke about this during a February 2009 briefing for special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, according to diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks and published by Britain’s Guardian. ” Our major concern is not having an Islamic militant steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in GOP facilities could gradually smuggle enough material out to eventually make a weapon.”

[i]Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who retired after three years as the U.S. Department of Energy’s director of intelligence and counter-intelligence, preceded by two decades at the CIA, echoed the same in the July/August 2009 issue of Arms Control Today:[/i]

Retired Pakistan Brig. Gen. Feroz Hassan Khan, a former director of arms control and disarmament affairs in the Strategic Plans Division,  said in a piece in the same issue of Arms Control that while some of the fears over nuclear security were valid, many were overblown. While concerns  relating to theft of material, sabotage, unauthorized use of nuclear weapons, and even  insider-outsider collaboration were valid, the idea that somebody in the armed forces would collaborate with militant groups to steal weapons was bizarre.

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[bhrami]

Pakistan dagara enni Nuclear bombs vundi vuntayi antav. Nijam ga war vasthe vatini ekada varaku tesukuragalutaru India lo  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

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Pakistan dagara enni Nuclear bombs vundi vuntayi antav. Nijam ga war vasthe vatini ekada varaku tesukuragalutaru India lo  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
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teesukostam ante mosuku raru.......... vaatiki delivery mechanizams untay............ bombers are highly unlikely unless they gain air superiority

only way is missiles are smuggle the bomb through the border.  kaani valla command and control enta strong ga undo teleedu  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

[bhrami]

[quote author=SHOURYAM link=topic=140444.msg1586917#msg1586917 date=1294336184]
teesukostam ante mosuku raru.......... vaatiki delivery mechanizams untay............ bombers are highly unlikely unless they gain air superiority

only way is missiles are smuggle the bomb through the border.  kaani valla command and control enta strong ga undo teleedu  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
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I meant adhee  sFi_boink3 sFi_boink3 sFi_boink3 air lo tesuku ravali but war vasthe mana air base vallu vallani ekada apagalaru ani.  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

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I meant adhee  sFi_boink3 sFi_boink3 sFi_boink3 air lo tesuku ravali but war vasthe mana air base vallu vallani ekada apagalaru ani.  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
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eppudu kuda bombers first attack cheyavu........... fighter make sure taht they gain air superiority ..........aa taravate bombers vastayi

ikkada 2 thing jaragali if paskitan has to be successful

1) IAF mottani nashanam cheyali
2) Indian anti aircraft mechanism ni mottam dismantle cheyali

the two scenarios kuda highly unlikely 

the other thing is missiles...... if they have what they claim........ no body can save us unless we develop AMDs

[bhrami]

[quote author=SHOURYAM link=topic=140444.msg1586940#msg1586940 date=1294336557]
eppudu kuda bombers first attack cheyavu........... fighter make sure taht they gain air superiority ..........aa taravate bombers vastayi

ikkada 2 thing jaragali if paskitan has to be successful

1) IAF mottani nashanam cheyali
2) Indian anti aircraft mechanism ni mottam dismantle cheyali

the two scenarios kuda highly unlikely 

the other thing is missiles...... if they have what they claim........ no body can save us unless we develop AMDs
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antha bayanak misseles emunayi alla dagara? mana dagara leva alantivi  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

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[quote author=SHOURYAM link=topic=140444.msg1586940#msg1586940 date=1294336557]
eppudu kuda bombers first attack cheyavu........... fighter make sure taht they gain air superiority ..........aa taravate bombers vastayi

ikkada 2 thing jaragali if paskitan has to be successful

1) IAF mottani nashanam cheyali
2) Indian anti aircraft mechanism ni mottam dismantle cheyali

the two scenarios kuda highly unlikely 

the other thing is missiles...... if they have what they claim........ no body can save us unless we develop AMDs
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india daggara AMD unnai baa  sHa_high5ing sHa_high5ing

source [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense[/url]

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india daggara AMD unnai baa  sHa_high5ing sHa_high5ing

source [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense[/url]
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its still in testing phase.

2 times pass aite oka sari dail ayyindi

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antha bayanak misseles emunayi alla dagara? mana dagara leva alantivi  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
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missile bhayankarama kaada annadi point kaadu oka sari Indian air space lo ki enter aite bokka manake..............