India Faced With WMD Threat, Defense Officials Say

[Secur]

Uranium deposits are scattered in over 1000 places in Pakistan.. if someone can manage to obtain access through basic digging..

Why only Pakistan ? They can get it from anywhere in the world by basic digging ... Uranium isn't exclusive to Pakistan

Once in rouge hands no matter a three-man rule or hundred man rule, only a insane decision is all recquired. And U cant seem to compremend this simple fact. All sane people worry regardless of nation about the nuke, it is U who must be worried most about the aftermath regardless of who launches the attack on India.

How exactly are they going to launch it ? It cant be launched unless those three people enter the code which makes it impossible for anyone to use it without authorization ... Do some research on Permissive Action Link and see how it works before coming out here and making baseless assumptions

 

[Mech]

@secur

I suggest you keyword search the term 'dirty bomb'.

 

[Secur]

In order for a terrorist organization to construct and detonate a dirty bomb, they must acquire radioactive material by stealing it or buying it through legal or illegal channels. Possible RDD material could come from the millions of radioactive sources used worldwide in the industry, for medical purposes and in academic applications mainly for research.[18]

Radio logical materials can be acquired from thousands of other sources in the world too ... What exactly makes Pakistan so special ? There are many scientific stores which sell uranium ( United Nuclear for instance ) so how come people are bothered about Pakistan ... Our army doesn't really gift out Fissile material to terrorist unlike some who provide explosives to be used on muslims

There exist thousands of such "orphan" sources scattered throughout the world, but of those reported lost, no more than an estimated 20 percent can be classified as a potential high security concern if used in a RDD.[19] Especially Russia is believed to house thousands of orphan sources, which were lost following the collapse of the Soviet Union. A large but unknown number of these sources probably belong to the high security risk category. Noteworthy are the Russian very strong beta emitting strontium-90 sources used as radioisotope thermoelectric generators for beacons in lighthouses in remote areas.[21]

If you talk about Dirty Bomb , then even Russia poses more risk than Pakistan since they have no trace of their Radio logical material which was lost following Dissolution of USSR ... I dont see any western editor screaming about it ... Why ?

 

[Dash]

It may not have to do with the Nuclear material that is present in Pakistani hands..
Uranium deposits are scattered in over 1000 places in Pakistan.. if someone can manage to obtain access through basic digging..
even though they will be radiated themselves.. they can use it to create a dirty bomb and ship it to India.
And since all radioactive material can be traced via its half life to its source.. such an event can lead to a full fledged conflict.

That is true it can be traced, however Can we act saner then and accept the fundamentals and say we will not make it a full fledged conflict?. In this case you are the heavy weight not us.