[lbo-talk] Pakistan's Nuclear Forces, 2001

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January/February 2002

Vol. 58, No.1, pp. 70-71

Nuclear Notebook

Pakistan's Nuclear Forces, 2001

The terrorist attacks of September 11 focused a great deal of attention on the security of Pakistan's arsenal. According to press reports, Pakistan's military began relocating nuclear weapon components within two days of the attacks. One potential danger to Pakistan's arsenal is extremist elements within the intelligence service, armed forces, nuclear weapons program, and in the general population. Gen. Pervez Musharraf took several actions in
fall 2001 to mitigate these problems, including firing his intelligence chief and other officers, detaining several suspected retired nuclear weapons scientists, and redeploying the arsenal to at least six new secret locations.
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