Youm-e-Takbeer (May 28)
In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
http://www.awaztoday.com/playvideo.asp?pageId=5184
Islamabad Tonight – 31 August 2009 40 Comments
Nadeem Malik brings a special episode of Islamabad Tonight wih Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan
http://pkpolitics.com/2009/08/31/islamabad-tonight-31-august-2009/
Islamabad Tonight – 11 November 2009 39 Comments
Seymour Hersh, Ijaz Ulhaq, Orya Maqbool Jan and Kamran Shafi with Nadeem Malik.http://pkpolitics.com/2009/11/11/islamabad-tonight-11-november-2009/
Musharraf also confirmed that Pakistan had constructed a huge tunnel system for the transport and storage of nuclear weaponry. "The tunnels are so deep that a nuclear attack will not touch them," Musharraf told me, with obvious pride. The tunnels would make it impossible for the American intelligence community—"Big Uncle," as a Pakistani nuclear-weapons expert called it—to monitor the movements of nuclear components by satellite.
"The Pakistanis gave us a virtual look at the number of warheads, some of their locations, and their command-and-control system," the former senior intelligence official told me. "We saw their target list and their mobilization plans. We got their security plans, so we could augment them in case of a breach of security," he said. "We're there to help the Pakistanis, but we're also there to extend our own axis of security to their nuclear stockpile." The detailed American planning even includes an estimate of how many nuclear triggers could be placed inside a C-17 cargo plane, the former official said, and where the triggers could be sequestered.
The triggers are a key element in American contingency plans. An American former senior intelligence official said that a team that has trained for years to remove or dismantle parts of the Pakistani arsenal has now been augmented by a unit of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the élite counterterrorism group. He added that the unit, which had earlier focussed on the warheads' cores, has begun to concentrate on evacuating the triggers, which have no radioactive material and are thus much easier to handle.
Seymour Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_hersh?printable=true
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