Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Pakistan Nukes: The Third Horn (Daniel 8)


There have been scores of reports in the past questioning the safety of Pakistani nuclear assets. A similar report recently appeared in the Washington Post, which was yet another crude attempt to malign Pakistan and question the safety and integrity of its nuclear weapons.

From this perspective, in December 2011 issues of The Atlantic magazine and National Journal, Pakistan was labeled as ‘The ally from hell’. The article made preposterous claims that “Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads, to hide them from US spy agencies, making the weapons more vulnerable to theft by the militants after the US raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May at his Pakistani compound reinforced Islamabad’s longstanding fears that Washington could try to dismantle the country’s nuclear arsenal.”

In addition, the article had said: “As a result, the head of the Strategic Plans Divisions (SPD), which is charged with safeguarding the atomic weapons, was ordered to take action to keep the location of nuclear weapons and components hidden from the United States. But instead of transporting the nuclear parts in armoured, well-defended convoys, the atomic bombs capable of destroying entire cities are transported in delivery vans on congested and dangerous roads.”

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