Mind your own Nukes Please!
Maimuna Ashraf
Similarly India who is very active in propagating Pakistans nuclear security, itself has a grave account in nuclear leakages. This is another story that these incidents of Indian Nuclear loopholes and leakages always remained unattractive to gain the attention of International media. The history of Indian nuclear loopholes is as older as Indian nuclear program itself. Facts and finding in this regard is really alarming.
Since 1984 when the horrific incident of Bhopal shook India, till now more than 152 incidents of Uranium leakages took place and this is the number of incidents reported and registered in the police, there must be many which were not reported. Bhopal Gas tragedy was the worst incident where thousands of people in India lost their lives. Forty tons of a deadly toxin called methyl isocyanine leaked from a factory run by US-owned Union Carbide and settled over slums around the plant. It is said that the effects of the gas continue to this day. Those who are crying that Pakistans nukes are vulnerable to terrorists perhaps dont know that Indian nuclear assets are more vulnerable to terrorist and the world should really be worried about the Indian nuclear system,
because India has installed all its nuclear facilities and missiles in the Eastern zone in order to keep it utmost away from the striking capabilities of Pakistan. However, the eastern region of India has emerged as the most troubled, fragile and uncontrollable region of the country with a variety of insurgency movements including that of Naxal rebels, the group which has been declared as a terrorist group. India itself calls its region as The Red Corridor due to its instability. Indian nuclear facilities, Uranium processing plant by the name of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), Talcher Heavy Water Plant and Institute of Physics (IOP) is located in Nexal guerrillas dominated region of Jharkhand. While Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research(AMD), Ceramatic Fuel Fabrication Facility(CFFF), Special Materials Plant are located in
Maharashtra which is the hub of Extremist Hindu Militant Groups where Hindutva Brotherhood, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini and Sangh Parivar like terrorist organizations are well known for their extreme anti-Pakistan policies and are full capable of getting hold of any of the Indian nuclear facility that exists in their respective state and region.
Pakistan does not have any security issues regarding its nukes nor it had in past. India and US should be probably more worried who had such incidents in past. Terrorism is a global threat and if nukes are vulnerable to threat then means all the nuclear states stand under this threat. Therefore states should mind their own nukes and should not drool for others
crown jewels!
Mind your own Nukes Please!