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CBRN Brief
Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets: Safe and Secure
Rabia Akhtar
Defense and Diplomatic Studies, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
CBRNIB13-Rabia-PakNukes.pdf
 
Since Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker Magazine in Nov 2001, concerns were repeatedly raised in the American media about the possibilities of an extremist take over in Pakistan and the custodial controls of its nuclear weapons. Hersh disclosed an ‘élite Pentagon undercover unit’ especially trained to rescue the nuclear weapons of any worst case eventuality having contemplated options of operation in Pakistan which, according to US sources (in 2001), possessed twenty four nuclear warheads. Opinion makers like David Albright (Institute for Science and International Security), David Sanger (New York Times), Frederick Kagan and Michael O’Hanalon (New York Times), Thomas Ricks (Washington Post) and Peter Wannacott (Wall Street Journal) followed Hersh in raising questions over the safety and security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets

 
 
 
 

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