Pakistan shopping from black market to create hydogen bomb

[DkBose]

In court papers released last month, the United States government openly alleges for the first time that Pakistan is seeking to develop thermonuclear weapons, and has attempted to purchase the materials necessary for their production on the black market, Global Security Newswire reports.
Pakistan is already a nuclear-armed country, though it operates outside the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty framework. It is estimated to have a stockpile of approximately 100 weapons—the fastest growing stockpile in the world—though those are all uranium-based.
The new revelations represent the first official confirmation that Pakistan is seeking to build a thermonuclear, or hydrogen-based, weapon, which is about 1,000 times more powerful than a uranium weapon.
Only the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—France, Russia, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom—are known to possess hydrogen bombs.
Because Pakistan has not signed the non-proliferation treaty, it is mostly banned from the legal international nuclear trade, and has notoriously dabbled in the black market before.
The court papers stem from a Justice Department suit against a Chinese woman living in the United States who allegedly shipped to Pakistan high-tech paint coatings that will help the country develop thermonuclear weapons, despite U.S. laws banning such trade.
Before the woman, Xun Wang, was hired by Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries in 2006, the company had already shipped hundreds of gallons of the paint coating to Pakistan for use on an atomic reactor. A lengthy investigation by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review suggests Wang is "the fall woman" for what was essentially a company-wide practice.


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[SQ8]

Good lord.. another speculative article.
All the black market activities we needed to do we did in the 90's.
We bought all the brick and mortar for the foundation.
The rest we can do ourselves..
black market.. lol.

 

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Only the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—France, Russia, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom—are known to possess hydrogen bombs.

Did not Vajpayee claim that India had tested a thermonuclear device ?

 

[The Deterrent]

Did not Vajpayee claim that India had tested a thermonuclear device ?

The article is stating about 5 permanent members of UN...

 

[SR 71 Blackbird]

Good lord.. another speculative article.
All the black market activities we needed to do we did in the 90's.
We bought all the brick and mortar for the foundation.
The rest we can do ourselves..
black market.. lol.

The shopping that was done in the 90's was for fission devices.

 

[Imran Khan]

its mean not pakistani's but some other nationals run the black market of nuclear weapons .so why the hell daily they blame us they should look at 7 other nuclear powers security systems .who can pakistani's run black market or a network of supply nuclear secrets and they looking from black market?. thermo nuclear tech is US RUSSIAN .they should mind there nukes now.and those who sale this tech in black market sure citizens of USA or RUSSIA

 

[TaimiKhan]

The shopping that was done in the 90's was for fission devices.

Are you sure about that ?? How you know that all the shopping was for just what you described ??

Plz provide your link or the info you have.

We heard similar things from across the border, we have no nukes and we are bluffing, but then in 98 we proved you guys wrong and then again we did prove many of you and others to be wrong about lot of things that we developed.

 

[indushek]

It seems that the USA is lining up articles it already knows as something new right now. They are trying to encircle Pakistan in lot of issues at a time. Sort of suffocating a person. Let us see when this train stops.

 

[SQ8]

The shopping that was done in the 90's was for fission devices.

Im sure you know it all.

 

[SR 71 Blackbird]

Im sure you know it all.

I don't-"know it all."
But Scientists in Wisconsin "know it all"(Their Source was US intelligence Officials)

Smuggling has been the hallmark of Pakistan's program. In 1982 and 1983, Pakistan illegally acquired U.S. oscilloscopes, which process data from nuclear weapon tests, and high-speed computers with nuclear weapon applications. At the same time, Pakistan bought nine flash X-ray machines from Sweden. These machines photograph the implosive shock waves used to detonate the fission reaction in the core of an atomic bomb. In June 1984, a Pakistani was arrested while attempting to smuggle out of the United States 50 krytrons, high-speed electronic switches used to detonate nuclear weapons. Documents linked the buyer directly to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). In July 1985, ABC News reported that according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), Pakistan had successfully smuggled American-made krytrons, and that it had detonated a triggering package for a nuclear device in June 1985.

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Climbing up the nuclear ladder, Pakistan revealed its interest in building more powerful bombs when it tried to buy beryllium and imported a tritium purification plant from Germany. These materials can be used to boost the yield of fission bombs. To prevent Germany from selling beryllium to Pakistan, the U.S. government told Germany unequivocally that the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) was conducting research on the use of beryllium "in nuclear explosives, with the aim of incorporating [beryllium] into a future nuclear weapons design.

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[SR 71 Blackbird]

Double Post.

 

[TaimiKhan]

I don't-"know it all."
But Scientists in Wisconsin "know it all"(Their Source was US intelligence Officials)

Smuggling has been the hallmark of Pakistan's program. In 1982 and 1983, Pakistan illegally acquired U.S. oscilloscopes, which process data from nuclear weapon tests, and high-speed computers with nuclear weapon applications. At the same time, Pakistan bought nine flash X-ray machines from Sweden. These machines photograph the implosive shock waves used to detonate the fission reaction in the core of an atomic bomb. In June 1984, a Pakistani was arrested while attempting to smuggle out of the United States 50 krytrons, high-speed electronic switches used to detonate nuclear weapons. Documents linked the buyer directly to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). In July 1985, ABC News reported that according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), Pakistan had successfully smuggled American-made krytrons, and that it had detonated a triggering package for a nuclear device in June 1985.

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Climbing up the nuclear ladder, Pakistan revealed its interest in building more powerful bombs when it tried to buy beryllium and imported a tritium purification plant from Germany. These materials can be used to boost the yield of fission bombs. To prevent Germany from selling beryllium to Pakistan, the U.S. government told Germany unequivocally that the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) was conducting research on the use of beryllium "in nuclear explosives, with the aim of incorporating [beryllium] into a future nuclear weapons design.

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Where does it says that we are not going for thermonuclear weapons or that there is no such program ??

 

[Patriot]

Well I am proud of our government if true - I hope we can make HBOMB soon.

 

[Bratva]

I don't-"know it all."
But Scientists in Wisconsin "know it all"(Their Source was US intelligence Officials)

Smuggling has been the hallmark of Pakistan's program. In 1982 and 1983, Pakistan illegally acquired U.S. oscilloscopes, which process data from nuclear weapon tests, and high-speed computers with nuclear weapon applications. At the same time, Pakistan bought nine flash X-ray machines from Sweden. These machines photograph the implosive shock waves used to detonate the fission reaction in the core of an atomic bomb. In June 1984, a Pakistani was arrested while attempting to smuggle out of the United States 50 krytrons, high-speed electronic switches used to detonate nuclear weapons. Documents linked the buyer directly to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). In July 1985, ABC News reported that according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), Pakistan had successfully smuggled American-made krytrons, and that it had detonated a triggering package for a nuclear device in June 1985.

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Climbing up the nuclear ladder, Pakistan revealed its interest in building more powerful bombs when it tried to buy beryllium and imported a tritium purification plant from Germany. These materials can be used to boost the yield of fission bombs. To prevent Germany from selling beryllium to Pakistan, the U.S. government told Germany unequivocally that the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) was conducting research on the use of beryllium "in nuclear explosives, with the aim of incorporating [beryllium] into a future nuclear weapons design.

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Ogay..... oops i mean Okay...... but as Santro said All the black market activities we needed to do we did in the 90's and 80's. Then what's the point of bringing this article? and since 2000's how can some one purchase from nuclear black market. Common sense not common in some people

 

[manojb]

Why pak goes to black market? They can directly get from china?! I m sure pak is getting help from china. But why this news.