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US report reveals Pak enhancing nuke weapon capability to target India | | Top US nuclear scientists have shockingly revealed in a report that Pakistan is enhancing its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. According to the report, which
is yet to enter the public domain, Pakistan is readying a new nuclear capable
ballistic missile for deployment and two nuclear capable cruise missiles. It also
says that Pakistan is building two new plutonium production reactors and a second
chemical separation facility at Chasma, Khushab and Dera Ghazi Khan in southern
Punjab. Pakistan is also renewing work on a partially built separation plant at
Chasma. It is believed that this secretive and substantial arsenal build-up is
targeted at India. Based on official estimates of Pakistan's current uranium and
plutonium technology, scientists had so far thought the country far short of having
a 100 nuclear warheads in its kitty. The new report, however, suggests that Pakistan
has exceeded earlier estimates, and from being able to build 30-40 nuclear weapons
it actually could possess as many as 70-90 - a disturbing figure from India's
point of view and that of the US, currently debating financial and military aid
to its friend in keeping with the AFPAK agreement. Moreover, if this report is
true Pakistan is clearly going beyond the moratorium existing as an unwritten
code of conduct in South Asia to halt the arms race.
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