Pakistan China friendship ensures that Chasnupp 3 & 4 are on track

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Pakistan China friendship ensures that Chasnupp 3 & 4 are on track

Posted on 28 December 2008. Tags: Chasnupp 3, Chasnupp 4, China, Pakistan

At present, China-Pakistan nuclear energy cooperation is mainly focused on the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant-2 in Punjab. The 325-MW capacity facility is being built in collaboration with China National Nuclear Corporation and is likely to be completed by the end of this year (2010). Asia Times.

Pakistan has one of the most sophisticated Nuclear Programs in the world. The outside world goes bananas every time it discovers a tit bit of information about the robust program. The CIA, NSA and RAW didn’t have a clue about the program and did everything in their power to stop it. Once it has been developed, they can only wish it away. Not a day passes by when some crackpot somewhere writes a story about a new discovery about the program. The fact remains that “they” don’t have a clue.

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Facing idle talk from many sources, Pakistan has updated and upgraded its program. Much to the chagrin of its enemies, Pakistan has expedited its nuclear program. The ISIS makes it look its breaking news. It is now reporting that Pakistan has a Plutonium program. The ISIS analysts may have been living in a cave, because Islamabad has always had a Plutonium program. Obviously the program is ongoing and and will surely add to the number of bombs that it possesses.

A US arms control institute has warned that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programs could threaten the region. “Pakistan is indeed progressing in a strategic plan to improve the destructiveness and deliverability of its nuclear arsenal,” the Institute for Science and International Security said.

The institute released satellite photos on Tuesday that showed the expansion of a chemical plant complex near Dera Ghazi Khan. The plant produces uranium hexalfuoride and uranium metal, materials used to produce nuclear weapons, the ISIS report said.

Photos also suggested the Pakistanis “have added a second plutonium separation plant adjacent to the old one” at a site near Rawalpindi, according to the report. The expansion would enable Pakistan to build smaller, lighter plutonium-fission weapons and thermonuclear weapons that employ “plutonium as the nuclear trigger and enriched and natural enriched uranium in the secondary,” it said.

The ISIS report stated that the nuclear progress “complicates efforts to improve the security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets.” In response, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that its nuclear programs were not “static”.

“Our nuclear deterrence is an indispensable factor of stability in the region,” the Foreign Ministry statement asserted. Press TV

More than 50,000 scientists and engineers work on the Pakistani Nuclear program. 50,000 soldiers protect the program with concentric levels of security-best known to man. It is one of the most sophisticated projects in the history of the world and has been completed by a country in record time. The India-specific program calls for targeting major targets in India, to prevent is from occupying Pakistani territory or from crossing the sacrosanct Pakistani border. Not only does Pakistan have a first strike capability, Pakistan also has a second strike capability. Pakistan’s bombs are secure in hardened silos which would survive a nuclear attack from India.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan has addressed issues of survivability in a possible nuclear conflict through second strike capability, says a US congressional report. The first part of the report, published on Friday, deals with Islamabad’s efforts to develop new weapons, while the second part studies its strategy for surviving a nuclear war. According to the report, Pakistan has built hard and deeply buried storage and launch facilities to retain a second strike capability in a nuclear war. It also has built road-mobile missiles, air defences around strategic sites, and concealment measures. US. Congressional Research Service Report. May 29, 2009

The ISIS and other Western media is making a big hullabaloo about Islamabad’s program while it is quiet about the Israeli program.

The program employs tens of thousands of Pakistanis, including about 2,000 believed to possess “critical knowledge” about how to produce a weapon.

The dimensions of the Pakistani buildup are not fully understood. “We see them scaling up their centrifuge facilities,” said David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, which has been monitoring Pakistan’s continued efforts to buy materials on the black market, and analyzing satellite photographs of two new plutonium reactors less than 100 miles from where Pakistani forces are currently fighting the Taliban.

“The Bush administration turned a blind eye to how this is being ramped up,” he said. “And of course, with enough pressure, all this could be preventable.”

As a matter of diplomacy, however, the buildup presents Mr. Obama with a potential conflict between two national security priorities, some aides concede. One is to win passage of a global agreement to stop the production of fissile material — the uranium or plutonium used to produce weapons. Pakistan has never agreed to any limits and is one of three countries, along with India and Israel, that never signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. New York Times. By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER Published: May 17, 2009. Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says

The relationship (on the nuclear issue) remains intact”.
Speaking to CBS News on condition of anonymity, the official added, “there is now a complete understanding on our future cooperation”
Chasnupp 3 and Chasnupp 4 had always been in the plan.

Pakistan’s Nuclear doctrine is based on something like what the North Koreans have perfected over the years. Of course the North Korean offensive defense is against the USA, the Pakistani doctrine deals with an India specific threat.

Kim Myong Chol is author of a number of books and papers in Korean, Japanese and English on North Korea, including Kim Jong-il’s Strategy for Reunification. He has a PhD from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Academy of Social Sciences and is often called an “unofficial” spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea. Nuclear war is Kim Jong-il’s game plan By Kim Myong Chol

Kim Choi in various articles, one published in the Asia Times has outlined North Korean plans to deal with America, and Japan. Apparently his writings have been studied all over the world, and the Pakistan Army is no exception. The following scenario is based on what what Choi wrote.

Four types of hydrogen bomb raids can do the job. The game plan for nuclear war specifies four types of thermonuclear assault:

(1) The bombing of operating nuclear power stations;

(2) Detonations of a hydrogen bombs in seas off Mumbai and other ports

(3) Detonations of H-bombs in space far above their heartlands; and

(4) Thermonuclear attacks on the major urban centers like Delhi and Kolkota.

The first attack involves converting operating nuclear power plants on the coastline into makeshift multi-megaton H-bombs.

If bombed, one average operating nuclear power station is estimated to spew out as much deadly fallout as 150-180 H-bombs. Bombing one Indian nuclear power station would render most of Bharat uninhabitable.

Nothing is easier than bombing a power plant on a coastline. There is no need to use a ballistic missile. Primitive means will do the job.

North Korea has planned this to the tee. According to North Korean experts “The US has 103 operating nuclear power stations with onsite storage of a huge quantity of spent fuel rods and Japan has 53 operating atomic power stations. Japan has a stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium – enough to assemble more than 1,000 atomic bombs in a short period of time. South Korea has 20 operating nuclear power stations with onsite storage of a huge quantity of spent fuel rods.”

The detonation of sea-borne or undersea H-bombs planted on the three countries’ continental shelves will trigger nuclear tsunamis with devastating consequences.

A 2006 RAND study of a ship-based 10-kiloton nuclear blast on the Port of Long Beach had some harrowing conclusions:

“Within the first 72 hours, the attack would devastate a vast portion of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Because ground-burst explosions generate particularly large amounts of highly radioactive debris, fallout from the blast would cause much of the destruction. In some of the most dramatic possible outcomes:

Sixty thousand people might die instantly from the blast itself or quickly thereafter from radiation poisoning.

One hundred and fifty thousand more might be exposed to hazardous levels of radioactive water and sediment from the port, requiring emergency medical treatment.

The blast and subsequent fires might completely destroy the entire infrastructure and all ships in the Port of Long Beach and the adjoining Port of Los Angeles.

Six million people might try to evacuate the Los Angeles region.

Two to three million people might need relocation because fallout will have contaminated a 500-square-kilometer area.

Gasoline supplies might run critically short across the entire region because of the loss of Long Beach’s refineries – responsible for one-third of the gas west of the Rocky Mountains.

RAND projects that the economic costs would exceed $1 trillion.

The third possible attack, a high-altitude detonation of hydrogen bombs that would create a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP), would disrupt the communications and electrical infrastructure of the US, the whole of Japan, and South Korea.

Many of the essential systems needed to survive war would be knocked out, as computers are instantly rendered malfunctioning or unusable. Military and communications systems such as radars, antennas, and missiles, government offices, would be put out of use, as would energy sources such as nuclear power stations and transport and communications systems including airports, airplanes, railways, cars and cell phones.

Ironically the ubiquity of high-tech computing gadgets in the US, Japan and South Korea has made them most vulnerable to EMP attacks.

The last and fourth attack would be to order into action a global nuclear strike force of dozens of MIRVed ICBMs – each bearing a thermonuclear warhead on a prefixed target.

The Yongbyon nuclear site has always been a decoy to attract American attention and bring it into negotiations on a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War. Since as far back as the mid-1980, North Korea has assembled 100-300 nuclear warheads in an ultra-clandestine nuclear weapons program. The missiles can be mounted on medium-range missiles designed to be nuclear capable.

A prototype ICBM was assembled by the end of the 1980s. Two prototype ICBMs were test-fired on May 29, 1993, with one splashing down off Honolulu and the other off Guam. The Kim Jong-il administration gave an advance notice to the US government of the long-range missile test. But the American reaction was skeptical. Why the US can never attack North Korea

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The naiveté, incompetence and emotional decadence of the Indian press amazes us time and again. Now we have another “eureka moment” by the Rip Van Winkle Indian press. Stop all presses! All of a sudden the Hindustan Times has discovered that work on the Chasnupp 3 and Chasnupp 4 is progressing per schedule. Indian spies may have woken up the reality that the work on Chasnupps had never stopped. Pakistan and China had agreed to build the Chasnupp way back, a decade ago when construction of the first Chasnupp had begun.

Chasnupp 3 and Chasnupp 4 had always been in the plan. In actuality there are more than 4 Chasnupps in the works. Rupee News had published details of the Chasnupps a bout two years ago. It just goes to show that India has never reconciled to the notion that Pakistan is a nuclear power. Actually it has never reconciled to the notion that Pakistan is an independent country. The day India does that, there maybe peace in the Subcontinent. Why is US trying to block Pakistan-China nuclear cooperation?

China may have resumed civil nuclear assistance to Pakistan‘: Hindustan Times claims report –corroborated by Western intelligence agencies. Why is the West after Pakistani Nukes?

LAHORE: India has received intelligence inputs saying that China has secretly resumed assistance to Pakistan’s civilian nuclear programme, according to the Hindustan Times, which has also claimed that the report has been “corroborated by Western intelligence agencies”.

According to the report, China’s resumption of assistance is a possible follow up to the visit of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to Beijing on October 18. A bilateral nuclear agreement was signed during the visit. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi later said that China had agreed to set up two atomic reactors, the Chashma-3 and Chashma-4, and the Pakistan-China Joint Atomic Commission would meet soon. The deal is expected to provide a symbolic balance to the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement, said the Hindustan Times. “The Chashma 3 and 4 reactors have been under a cloud since China signed up to the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2004,” said the newspaper. Daily Times and Hindustan Times

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Pakistan already has a Nuclear Deal with China! India tried to raise expectations to portend failure!. The US aid to Pakistan is ephemeral, self-centered and transactional. If the world is going to buy into “Change we can believe in”, the perception and reality of US-Pakistani relations has to change.

Under group guidelines, no NSG member could provide nuclear assistance to a non-signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Beijing claimed to have ‘grandfathered’ the Chashma3 and 4 reactors saying that it had the right to fulfill the contract with Pakistan because it had been signed before China’s entry into the NSG.

However, according to a senior government adviser, the US has demarched China over ‘providing Pakistan reactors’, and declined to endorse the ‘grandfather’ clause. “Beijing on its part had never given up its right to provide Pakistan the two reactors; it merely avoided angering the US for fear of sanctions,” said the report.

China may have now begun preparing the ground for a transfer in expectation that the US may be too consumed with the financial crisis and the presidential transition to take notice of any infraction of the NSG guidelines, said the newspaper.

In the past, China has defended its nuclear co-operation to Pakistan arguing that Pakistan’s nuclear arms posture was ‘defensive’ and the Indo-Pakistan nuclear standoff provided stability to the region. The Chashma reactors however are supposed be safeguarded and would not contribute to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme. Daily Times and Hindustan Times

Pakistan's All Weather Ally Pakistan already has a Nuclear deal with China: It goes way beyond any other nuclear deal in the world.

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China has privately agreed to follow a “step-by-step” approach to fulfilling Pakistan’s aspiration for an expanded nuclear energy program, rather than sign an ambitious civil nuclear program of the kind recently struck between the U.S. and India, senior Pakistani and Western officials said on Thursday.

Private discussions are believed to have been held on expanded nuclear cooperation between Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari and Chinese leaders during Zardari’s four-day visit to China, which began Tuesday.

A senior Pakistani government official, familiar with discussions between Zardari and Chinese officials, claimed Thursday that China had agreed to “consider further nuclear power reactors to fulfill our needs. The relationship (on the nuclear issue) remains intact”. Speaking to CBS News on condition of anonymity, the official added, “there is now a complete understanding on our future cooperation”. (CBS) The following was written by CBS News’ Farhan Bokhari, reporting from Islamabad.

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China helped Pakistan in developing its Nuclear program he though Pakistan’s program is Uranium based–different that that of China. Pakistan already has a nuclear deal. China already has setup two nuclear power plants Chasnupp 1 (300 MW) and Chasnupp 2 (300 MW). The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant is located at Chashma, Punjab, Pakistan. It consists of Chashma Nuclear Power Plant I (CHASNUPP-1) and Chashma Nuclear Power Plant II (CHASNUPP-2). CHASNUPP-3 (600MW under construction) and CHASNUPP-4 (2000 MW planned to be completed before 2030) are in the planning stages.

China does not make any 1000 MW plants, so the Chasnupp3 and Chasnupp 4 etc. will be much larger plants beginning in 2010. A series of these will be constructed within the next five years. However this will not done be done under floodlights and hoopla. Pakistan’s Nuclear deal with the USA is like the American Nuclear deal with Israel. The Chinese help to the Pakistanis is like the assistance the US provided to Britain and then to France to help their Nuclear programs. Pakistan is not the proliferater of Nuclear weapons, it takes the brunt of the blame for nonsensical and vindictive blame game.

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