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India-Pakistan
Report: Pakistan Doubles Nuclear Arsenal
2011-01-31
Pakistan has doubled its nuclear weapons stockpile over the past several years, increasing its arsenal to more than 100 deployed weapons, according to a published report.

As a result, Pakistan has now edged ahead of India, its nuclear-armed rival, The Washington Post reported late Sunday, citing non-government analysts. India is estimated to have 60 to 100 weapons.

Only four years ago the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was estimated at 30 to 60 weapons.
The article also talks about how Pakistan is holding an American that was involved in a double shooting despite claims of diplomatic immunity. That leads to the question, is Pakistan nuking up to protect itself from India, or the US? The US has been pushing hard on Pakistan to shape up for a good while now. Maybe they feel if they have enough nukes they can tell the rest of the world to go to hell and keep doing their old ways and letting the ISI fund all sorts of nasty buisness?
Posted by:DarthVader

#4  ION WAFF > GREECE BRACES FOR MIGRANT [Refugee] INFLUX FROM EGYPT, as well as from other North African countries.

* ALso from WAFF > TSK TO TRAIN SYRIAN ARMY [Turkey attempting to eliminate former Soviet, now RUSSIAN, econ influence in Syria, espec vee ARMS, MILSYS SALES].

ALL OR LARGE PARTS THEREFROM ARE WITHIN THE RANGE OF [post-JASMINE?]PAKISTAN'S LR MISSLES???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-31 22:08  

#3  HMMMMM, HMMMMM, POST-"JASMIN/JASMINE" REGIONAL POLITICAL JIHAD SCENARIOS > "HEZBOLLAH IN PAKISTAN/AFPAK", versus "TALIBAN" in same, EXCEPT FOR BEING NUCLEAR-ARMED WID 100 NUCBOMBS.

Yokay, I'll bite, WHOM FORGOT TO SEND OR GET THE MEMO - "2012" IS NEXT YEAR, NOT THIS YEAR!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-31 22:02  

#2  If we counted them, would our number be anywhere close to theirs? If we counted the ones that weren't so rust-encrusted as to be non-functional, how many would that be?

The Palestinian territories overcounted their population by about one million people. There were double counts, calculations based on invalid assumptions, ignoring deaths... then the announced number was a calculation based on assumed birth rates from the exaggerated base number rather than doing an actual census.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-31 14:31  

#1  Who is the bigger threat to the West Pakistan or Iran?Pakistan has the nukes.Iran the expansive ideology.


Whilst keeping an eye on Egypt,Somalia and Yemen.............
Posted by: Paul D   2011-01-31 11:04  

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