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Some wonder why Pakistan needs Nuclear weapons. Superpower Army scared to attack Pakistan. Feared India would loose territory.Pakistan began its Nuclear development in the 70s in response to the aggression of Bharat (aka India) as well as the India’s first Nuclear explosion in 1973. At the time, Pakistan approached all the superpowers and asked them for a Nuclear Umbrella. The Pakistani missions were laughed out of town. Pakistan also asked the international community to stop the proliferation perpetuated by Bharat. No efforts were made to stop the proliferation.

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When the Soviets had been defeated in Afghanistan with the help of the Pakistanis (2 million Pakistanis and Afghans died in defeating them) the US and most of Europe imposed debilitating sanctions on Pakistan stilling its economic growth and prosperity. Right afterwards in the 90s BBC and US media started its campaign about Pakistani bomb making ventures. This campaign was incessant and continues to this day with all sorts of embellishments and extraneous comments. The proliferation experts falsify the proliferation record and other nonsense.

In 1998, at the behest of President Clinton, India exploded a nuclear device. Intense pressure was placed on Pakistan to not respond to the Bharati explosions. Pakistan waited for two weeks and carried on intense negotiations with the US. Pakistan agreed not to overtly test its nuclear bombs if Iraq type of sanctions were placed on India for exploding nuclear bombs. Pakistanis calmly waited for two weeks. When the sanctions were not imposed on Delhi, Pakistan responded and shattered its nuclear silence.

Pakistan already has a Nuclear Deal with China! India tried to raise expectations to portend failure!.Pakistan’s nuclear program was Uranium based. The technology developed for the bomb was unique, it was gas centrifuge based. Pakistan China friendship ensures that Chasnupp 3 & 4 on track.

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Pakistan has also been developing a Plutonium based Nuclear program which has reached stages beyond maturity. Pakistan’s Plutonium based program expands Islamabad’s production factory.  Why is US trying to block Pakistan-China nuclear cooperation? The biased article by Robert Windrem is meant to create alarm in the minds of the people who do not know history. Albright and Windrem are a two man band making a lot of noise but not producing any music. Their campaign about Pakistani plants in Khushab are exaggerated and seem to imply that he has discovered something new and exotic. Pakistan has had Plutonium producing plants since 1985 and the K2 and K3 are the natural progression of the original K1. Pakistan faces an acute shortage of electricity and these plants once in full production will be hooked up to the electrical grid. The actual electricity nuclear plants are in Chasma and are known as Chasnupp. Why is the West after Pakistani Nukes?

On the dusty plain 110 miles southwest of Islamabad, not far from an area controlled by the Taliban, two large new structures are rising, structures …Pakistan is building two of the developing world’s largest plutonium production reactors, which experts say could lead to improvements in the quantity and quality of the country’s nuclear arsenal, now estimated at 60 to 80 weapons.

What makes the project even more threatening is that it is unique.

“Pakistan is really the only country rapidly building up its nuclear forces,” says a U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the issue, noting that the nations that first developed nuclear weapons are now reducing their arsenals. Robert Windrem. msnbc.com

The purpose of these planted stories is of course is to create doubts about the country. Undeterred Pakistan’s irreversible Nuclear Program goes on and is one of the pillars of its successful defensive deterrence. Pakistanis may not agree on a lot of things, but surely they agree on the importance and necessity of the Nuclear program.

Satellite photos of Pakistan’s Khushab nuclear site show what appears to be a partially completed heavy-water reactor capable of producing enough plutonium for 40 to 50 nuclear weapons a year, a 20-fold increase from Pakistan’s current capabilities, according to a technical assessment by Washington-based nuclear experts. Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Program Plant Underway Could Generate Plutonium for 40 to 50 Bombs a Year, Analysts Say By Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, July 24, 2006; Page A01

ISIS has obtained commercial satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe taken January 30, 2009 of the Khushab plutonium production reactors in Pakistan. The imagery shows that major construction of the buildings associated with the second Khushab reactor is likely finished and that the roof beams are being placed on top of the third Khushab reactor hall (figure 1). The operational status of the second reactor is unknown, but it could start in the near future.David Albright and Paul Brannan

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With plutonium bombs, Pakistan can fully join the nuclear club,” said a Europe-based diplomat and nuclear expert, speaking on condition that he not be identified by name, after reviewing the satellite evidence. He concurred with the Institute for Science and International Security assessment but offered a somewhat lower estimate — “up to tenfold” — for the increase in Pakistan’s plutonium production. A third, U.S.-based expert concurred fully with the institute’s estimates. Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Program Plant Underway Could Generate Plutonium for 40 to 50 Bombs a Year, Analysts Say By Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, July 24, 2006; Page A01

Pakistan’s program was India specific and built for defensive pruposes. It has now had nuclear weapons for three decades without incident. But those chagrined at Pakistan’s program do not let up and hope that by some miracle it can do the impossible somehow reverse the program. Pakistan has more than 250 nuclear bombs, which are fully operational, and adequately minitiaturized and mounted to a series of missiles with ranges over 1000 miles. Pakistna also has intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS) as well as the very accurate cruise missiles.

First new reactor near completion

In the past several months, satellite imagery shows the first of these new reactors at Khushab nearing completion while the second is in final stages of external construction. Operations at the first may begin soon, while the second is four or five years from operation.

David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security…“It’s a lot further along than we expected,” says Albright. “We’re seeing steady progress. … We don’t know if they have the (uranium) fuel or heavy water on-site, but on the outside, major construction appears finished … We don’t know what’s going on inside.”

What is clear, Albright says, is that Pakistani officials are committing limited national resources to building up the country’s nuclear arsenal, resources he and others note have been supplemented and replenished by U.S. aid.

“They’re building a capability beyond any reasonable requirement,” says Albright, who first wrote about Khushab two years ago, when he noticed construction south of an existing but smaller plutonium production reactor that’s been operating since about 1998.

“We think it’s bigger than the first one,” he says of the so-called Khushab-I reactor, estimated by U.S. intelligence at 70 megawatts.

Albright estimates the new reactors are “at least on the order of 100 megawatts,” each capable of producing enough plutonium for “four or five nuclear weapons a year.” While small by power reactor standards, that’s substantially larger than the research reactors that provided material for the weapons programs of Israel, India and North Korea. He also believes that the reactors could have a separate mission: producing tritium, an element critical to the development of thermonuclear weapons, what used to be called H-bombs.Robert Windrem. msnbc.com

At the time, Pakistan did not have adequate missile delivery systems and had planned to use planes to deliver the bombs if needed. Since then Pakistan has one of the most robust missile programs on the planet 2nd only to the USSR, USA, France and the UK.

Change in nuclear strategy

Albright is not alone among non-proliferation experts. Zia Mian, of the International Panel on Fissile Materials at Princeton University, says adding a reliable and large-scale plutonium stream to the country’s long-term expertise in uranium enrichment signals a change in Pakistan’s nuclear strategy.

“The addition of the two reactors does two things,” Mian notes. “It allows them to make a lot more warheads, four or five a year, but it also allows them to make much lighter and more complex weapons for longer-range missiles and cruise missiles. … And triggers for thermonuclear weapons are almost always plutonium-based.”

Mian notes that Pakistan already has intermediate-range and short-range missiles capable of hitting any target in India, as well as submarine-launched cruise missiles.

Moreover, Mian says he believes that Pakistan also is upgrading its uranium centrifuge program at Kahuta, outside Islamabad, which has already given the country its first 70 nuclear weapons.

“There have been a series of reports where you can find evidence of Pakistan developing third- and fourth-generation centrifuges, much more powerful,” he said, “the same as the Europeans use to produce reactor fuel.”

The Pakistani government has no official comment on the reactors or the suspected upgrade in uranium enrichment. A senior Pakistani official who worked in the nuclear weapons program would only say “these reactors are part of plutonium production for the classified program” — code for nuclear weapons development.

There is not even a ruse that the Khushab reactors would produce electrical power for energy-starved Pakistan.

“There’s no connection to the national grid, no turbine at this site,” Albright said. “These kinds of reactors can be scaled up to power, but they need more cooling towers to make them large enough for electrical generation, and we don’t see that.”

Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, a leading Washington-based foreign policy and international security institute, thinks there may be a more troubling aspect to the reactor construction: a lack of organized decision making on the project.

…says Nawaz, the author of “Crossed Swords,” a history of the Pakistani military. “It’s all working on inertia. That’s probably why they are where they are.”

In the 1980s… the decade saw major advances in the Pakistani nuclear program, particularly at the Kahuta centrifuge facility outside Islamabad. MSNBC. Robert Windrem is a research fellow at the NYU Center for Law and Security. By Robert Windrem. msnbc.com contributor. updated 10:53 a.m. ET, Tues., May 12, 2009

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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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