Pakistan expanding its nuclear capability

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

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[brilTek]

^^ Good going. Let's expand the nuke activity like never before. The nuke reactors ought to be utilized for military and civilian application.

Yeah....Pakistans's debt which is now over 50 US Billion Dollar......can be cleared in One shot.....by exporting to one country only like IRAN or venezuela ......and there are lot of countries which should be interested to get their hand on it...

If US & west have the right to sell high tech weapons......Why can't pakistan sell at which they are best?

Lets use it for financial /blackmailing purposes as well besides deterance & energy

 

[Hasnain2009]

Pakistan Expanding Plutonium Separation Facility


It also may want larger yield (50-100 kiloton) fission weapons that can cause far more damage to Indian cities [/B] than its current relatively low-yield weapons.

That means pakistan is developing Hydrogen Bombs(thermonuclear bombs),

If we can develop small size warheads for criuse missiles, of 100kt yield that means we can develop 1mt(1000kt) yield warheads for ballastic missiles and aircrafts,
13kt destroyed Hroshima, i was wondering what 1mt bomb will do!

 

[muse]

Good conclusions based Good research ?- you decide

DG Khan uranium mine was closed 10 years ago: officials

Thursday, May 21, 2009
By Amir Mir

LAHORE: The recent claims by an American arms control institute that Pakistan had expanded two of its uranium exploration sites in Rawalpindi and Dera Ghazi Khan seem faulty as the Baghalchur Uranium Mine in Dera Ghazi Khan was closed down almost a decade ago after it ran out of the uranium deposits.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a Washington-based arms control organisation, has claimed that the commercial satellite imagery obtained by Digital Globe shows that Pakistan had expanded its uranium enrichment sites in Rawalpindi and Dera Ghazi Khan, which are crucial to its nuclear programme.

According to the ISIS claims, the commercial images reveal a major expansion of a chemical plant complex near DG Khan that produces uranium hexafluoride and uranium metal, two materials used to produce nuclear weapons. ìAll together, these recent expansion activities indicate that Pakistan is indeed progressing in a strategic plan to improve the destructiveness and deliverability of its nuclear arsenal,î the ISIS findings said.

However, knowledgeable circles in the Pakistani establishment have refuted the ISIS claims about expanding the infrastructure of the Baghalchur Uranium Mine, also known as BC-1, which used to produce yellowcake, saying the said site was officially closed down by the Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on November 30, 1999.

These circles say the uranium deposits at the Baghalchur site, which had a capacity of 25 MT of uranium per year, had exhausted in 1999 and thus the question of doubling the size of the Baghalchur compound simply does not arise. To a question, the sources said the Nuclear Track Detection Laboratory of Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) is now trying to explore some other sites in the Nangar Aani, Khura Murghanzai and Pitoksori Gorakh areas of Dera Ghazi Khan.

The ISIS has claimed in its recent report that Pakistan has cleared a new plot of land adjacent to the largest of the three compounds on the Baghalchur uranium mill site, which will double the size of the compound. The expansion includes new industrial buildings, anti-aircraft installations and several new settling ponds among the three compounds that were identified by the ISIS in the commercial satellite imagery.

However, the Pakistani authorities question the authenticity of the ISIS findings by pointing out the fact that the US arms control institute has itself admitted in the same report: “The current status of the Baghalchur uranium site is unknown...The expansion of the facilities at DG Khan is more difficult to assess because of uncertainties about the activities conducted at this site related to nuclear weapons production.”

The Pakistani authorities are amazed at the “negligence” of the ISIS staffers, saying it is a known fact that the Baghalchur site was being used by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission between 1978 and 1999 to take out uranium before the mine was closed down. They regretted that the ISIS authorities did not even take into account Pakistani media reports about the Baghalchur site now being used as a dumping ground for deadly nuclear waste. Although, the uranium exploration activity at the Baghalchur site has already been stopped, serious concerns are being raised by residents of the area as well as their elected representatives over the hazards from the radioactive waste left there.

As the anger amongst the local population grew over the government apathy, the dumping site was targeted with a mortar attack on May 15, 2006, allegedly by Baloch insurgents, sparking a large fire in the woods surrounding the Baghalchur establishment. Three days later, on May 19, 2006, Senator Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari of the PML-Q accused on the floor of the house the PAEC of dumping nuclear waste in the Baghalchur village of Dera Ghazi Khan without observing the international safety standards, and causing many deaths in the area.

Speaking on a point of order in the Senate, Jamal Leghari said the PAEC authorities had used the Baghalchur site for uranium extraction for almost two decades. Responding to Jamal Leghariís outburst, the PAEC spokesman had claimed on May 21, 2006 that the waste was dumped underground in tunnels and there was no radioactive effect of it on the area population and its environs.

The issue was later taken up by some residents of the area with the Supreme Court, which had directed the authorities to take additional pre-emptive steps given the potentially grave threat posed to public health. But it is astonishing that the ISIS simply ignored all these developments.[/I]


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[ajpirzada]

so here goes the ISIS study. these institutes excel in startin a propaganda. so called experts... huh
i wonder how much excieted they would have been before publishin this report as if they have cracked a mystery

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

I think our country should forget about giving billions of dollars of military aid to Pakistan. Pakistan will be taken over by the Taliban, Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists. It's time for us to go into Pakistan and snatch the nuclear weapons they possess.

Air force pilot If that scenario happens you would actually make the Russian Dream come true . And you guys would have to pay heavy price to the Russians even for the troops withdrawl .

 

[Neo]

‘Clinton couldn’t have offered Pakistan $5bn for not testing nukes’​

LAHORE: Former United States ambassador to Pakistan Bill Milam on Friday said former US president Bill Clinton could not have offered $5 billion to Pakistan for not conducting nuclear tests in 1998. He was responding to then prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement in which he claimed that Clinton had offered the aid to Islamabad in return for not testing nuclear missiles. Speaking on the programme “Najam Sethi Special” on Dunya News channel, Milam said Clinton could not have made any such offer to Nawaz as he would have had to get Congress’s approval for that. He said many of Clinton’s advisers also felt that the US president could not have delivered on any such promise made with the Pakistani government.