Cloud cover - Pakistan's shift towards tactical nuclear weapons

[Saifullah Sani]

Key Points

• Despite a recent reduction in India-Pakistan tensions, nuclear deterrence remains a priority for successive Pakistani governments.
• The development of a probable plutonium processing facility at the Dera Ghazi Khan nuclear site reflects Pakistan's migration towards a more advanced nuclear arsenal, including smaller warheads deliverable in a battlefield context.

• This emerging capability has increased uncertainty about the solidity of Pakistan's command-and-control system and the country's criteria for deploying tactical nuclear weapons.

Fighting in late August and early September in Islamabad between police and protesters demanding the resignation of Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif underlined how the country, a confirmed nuclear power, continues to be afflicted by political instability.

Cloud cover - Pakistan's shift towards tactical nuclear weapons - IHS Jane's 360

 

[trident2010]

Small nuclear weapons light enough to carry in a large suitcase is always a worry. Terrorist / extremists can get hold of it and use it for their own evil purposes.

 

[Kompromat]

Small nuclear weapons light enough to carry in a large suitcase is always a worry. Terrorist / extremists can get hold of it and use it for their own evil purposes.

They are nukes not watermelons.

 

[trident2010]

They are nukes not watermelons.

Exactly, but these scum bags doesn't know the difference.

 

[shaheenmissile]

Exactly, but these scum bags doesn't know the difference.

Your Samsung or Nokia Smart phone has how many locks and passwords?
Do you really think that countries make nukes and make them so easy to operate?
Obviously a nuke has more security,passwords,electronic and software complications before someone can detonate it.

 

[Donatello]

Small nuclear weapons light enough to carry in a large suitcase is always a worry. Terrorist / extremists can get hold of it and use it for their own evil purposes.

Okay, and then what?

Let's not create a mountain out of a mole hill.

How many such incidents have happened?

 

[trident2010]

Okay, and then what?

Let's not create a mountain out of a mole hill.

How many such incidents have happened?

It hasn't happened yet but is always a possibility.

 

[Donatello]

It hasn't happened yet but is always a possibility.

............just like anywhere else.

 

[Itachi]

Small nuclear weapons light enough to carry in a large suitcase is always a worry. Terrorist / extremists can get hold of it and use it for their own evil purposes.

It's easier to point fingers at others than at yourself first.

 

[trident2010]

It's easier to point fingers at others than at yourself first.

No one is pointing fingers.