Pakistan kuljettaa ydinohjuksia pakettiautoissa Amerikan pelossa

perjantai 4. marraskuuta 2011

Pakistan kuljettaa ydinohjuksia pakettiautoissa Amerikan pelossa

Pakistan is taking nuclear paranoia to a horrifying new low. And it’s making the world a vastly more dangerous place in the process.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/pakistan-nukes-delivery-vans/

Except that Pakistan isn’t trying to safeguard its nukes from them. It’s trying to safeguard its nukes from us. The Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden has made important Pakistani generals think that the U.S. military’s next target is Pakistani nukes. So off the vans go, along what Ambinder and Goldberg term “congested and dangerous roads,” trying to throw off the scent of the U.S., with little more than hope to protect them from an adventurous highwayman.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/pakistan-nukes-delivery-vans/

Should any of the nukes go missing, an “Abbottabad redux” would likely occur, Ambinder and Goldberg report. An anonymous military official tells the pair that the Joint Special Operations Command “has units and aircraft and parachutes on alert in the region for nuclear issues, and regularly inserts units and equipment for prep.” Seizing Pakistani nukes during or after a military coup is a much harder mission, but the reporters consider it doable. “[I]t’s wise for the U.S. to try to design a plan for seizing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in a low-risk manner,” Goldberg and Ambinder advise, placing a lot of rhetorical freight on the words “low-risk.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/pakistan-nukes-delivery-vans/

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-ally-from-hell/8730/?single_page=true

Pakistanilaiset kuskit ovat tunnettuja taitavuudestaan ja nyt lastina on ihka oikeita ydinpommeja.
http://pakdefenceunit.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/pakistan%E2%80%99s-nuclear-developments/

…instead of moving nuclear material in armored, well-defended convoys, the [Pakistani government] prefers to move material by subterfuge, in civilian-style vehicles without noticeable defenses, in the regular flow of traffic…according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, the Pakistanis have begun using this low-security method to transfer not merely the “de-mated” component nuclear parts but “mated” nuclear weapons. Western nuclear experts have feared that Pakistan is building small, “tactical” nuclear weapons for quick deployment on the battlefield. In fact, not only is Pakistan building these devices, it is also now moving them over roads.