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How Pakistan secures its nuclear weapons
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Command and Control
Musharraf established Pakistan’s overall nuclear command and control system in 1999, creating the Strategic Plans Division (SPD) in the Joint Staffs Headquarters to manage nuclear-related matters. In February 2002, Pakistan established the National Command Authority (NCA) to formulate policy and exercise employment and development control over all strategic nuclear forces and organizations.162 Retired Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan argued that “Despite widely known limitations, Pakistan has done remarkably well in establishing a nuclear security regime and an evolving nuclear security culture that requires encouragement and support.”
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National Command Authority (NCA)
• Makes decisions on nuclear deployment.
Strategic Plans Division (SPD)
The “secretariat” for the NCA; headed by the Director General from the army and comprises officers from the three services.
• Develops and manages all nuclear capability and exercises day-to-day control.
• SPD Director General is responsible for the operational security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
• SPD manages its 10,000 troops to ensure security at nuclear sites. Each nuclear facility has an SPD security division as the inner perimeter (the outer perimeter is the fence with electronic sensors).
• Conducts security clearances with the ISI for employees under the Personnel Reliability Programme (PRP) and Human Reliability Programme (HRP).
Strategic Forces Commands
• The Army, Navy, and Air Force each has its respective strategic force command, but operational control theoretically remains with the NCA.
• Each service exercises administrative control over the strategic delivery systems.
• Pakistan’s Army controls the surface-to-surface missiles used as delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons.
• Pakistan’s Air Force controls the aircraft used as delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons; protects several of the nuclear facilities through air defense (those sites are designated as no-fly zones).
Musharraf, in December 2007, formally articulated the NCA’s composition and functions:164 the President as chairman, the Prime Minister as Vice Chairman, the Foreign Minister, the Defense Minister, the Finance Minister, the Interior Minister, the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), the Chief of Naval Staff, and the Chief of Air Staff. When Musharraf left office in April 2008, Asif Ali Zardari became the nominal head of the NCA, though actual control over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons remained with the military. In November 2009, however, President Zardari handed over his NCA powers to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who chaired its 16th meeting on January 13, 2010.165
Musharraf established Pakistan’s overall nuclear command and control system in 1999, creating the Strategic Plans Division (SPD) in the Joint Staffs Headquarters to manage nuclear-related matters. In February 2002, Pakistan established the National Command Authority (NCA) to formulate policy and exercise employment and development control over all strategic nuclear forces and organizations.162 Retired Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan argued that “Despite widely known limitations, Pakistan has done remarkably well in establishing a nuclear security regime and an evolving nuclear security culture that requires encouragement and support.”
Group
Responsibility
National Command Authority (NCA)
• Makes decisions on nuclear deployment.
Strategic Plans Division (SPD)
The “secretariat” for the NCA; headed by the Director General from the army and comprises officers from the three services.
• Develops and manages all nuclear capability and exercises day-to-day control.
• SPD Director General is responsible for the operational security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
• SPD manages its 10,000 troops to ensure security at nuclear sites. Each nuclear facility has an SPD security division as the inner perimeter (the outer perimeter is the fence with electronic sensors).
• Conducts security clearances with the ISI for employees under the Personnel Reliability Programme (PRP) and Human Reliability Programme (HRP).
Strategic Forces Commands
• The Army, Navy, and Air Force each has its respective strategic force command, but operational control theoretically remains with the NCA.
• Each service exercises administrative control over the strategic delivery systems.
• Pakistan’s Army controls the surface-to-surface missiles used as delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons.
• Pakistan’s Air Force controls the aircraft used as delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons; protects several of the nuclear facilities through air defense (those sites are designated as no-fly zones).
Musharraf, in December 2007, formally articulated the NCA’s composition and functions:164 the President as chairman, the Prime Minister as Vice Chairman, the Foreign Minister, the Defense Minister, the Finance Minister, the Interior Minister, the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), the Chief of Naval Staff, and the Chief of Air Staff. When Musharraf left office in April 2008, Asif Ali Zardari became the nominal head of the NCA, though actual control over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons remained with the military. In November 2009, however, President Zardari handed over his NCA powers to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who chaired its 16th meeting on January 13, 2010.165
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Pakistan as Muslim nuclear power for everneed to built IMCB man go long range.no one will dare to touch our
nuclear weapons but binladin operation with stealth tec is a ? need to upgrade radars msn
never heard about them
inter continental ballistic missile bro got it wrong 
i was thinking way Indian media do that ............... what will they get from this ...........but indian media makes propagenda with there whole power against dr.AQ KHAN.
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Pakistan and all other countries should discontinue creation of nuclear weapons.
Please, the money and expertise can be spent on other areas like improvement of education, health care and the economy for the the entire world.
Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction and only cause problems in the world! We need peace and unity.
Please, the money and expertise can be spent on other areas like improvement of education, health care and the economy for the the entire world.
Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction and only cause problems in the world! We need peace and unity.
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http://www.sassu.org.uk/html/Pakistan Nuclear Command and Control Final.pdf
Pakistan nuclear command and control system .. a third party assesment..
An old paper but interesting.
Pakistan nuclear command and control system .. a third party assesment..
An old paper but interesting.
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R u living in lulu land?
We all want to have thoughts like these but buddy as it is a reality we have to live with, that until Judgement Day violence will al-ways win over peace.
It is unlikely for the U.S. to deeply engage in cooperation with Pakistan on military and technological terms. Washington expresses that it is deeply concerned about whether the Islamist radical groups possess Pakistans nuclear weapons, even though the Pakistani military executives declared that is impossible.
What is more, for a long time, the U.S. has been making an effort implicitly and explicitly to reveal the nuclear technology, missile systems and nuclear weapons of Pakistan. On this matter, Pakistan has got more anxious since the killing of Bin Laden in Abbotabad by U.S. special forces. This anxiety is clearly expressed in the article about Pakistan called The Ally From Hell in Atlantic Magazine by Goldberg and Ambinder in December 2011. According to the article, Pakistani military authorities believe that the U.S. is able to carry out multiple operations simultaneously against the Pakistani nuclear program, similar to the one in Abbotabad. Pakistan is reported to have been working hard to stop the U.S. and Indian access to its nuclear weapon facilities over land, air and space.
What is more, for a long time, the U.S. has been making an effort implicitly and explicitly to reveal the nuclear technology, missile systems and nuclear weapons of Pakistan. On this matter, Pakistan has got more anxious since the killing of Bin Laden in Abbotabad by U.S. special forces. This anxiety is clearly expressed in the article about Pakistan called The Ally From Hell in Atlantic Magazine by Goldberg and Ambinder in December 2011. According to the article, Pakistani military authorities believe that the U.S. is able to carry out multiple operations simultaneously against the Pakistani nuclear program, similar to the one in Abbotabad. Pakistan is reported to have been working hard to stop the U.S. and Indian access to its nuclear weapon facilities over land, air and space.
