Monday, July 24, 2006

Pakistan's "New" reactor

Was reading this article on The Independent online edition:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1195243.ece

A small snippet:

"Satellite photographs of what appears to be a nuclear reactor under construction in Pakistan are the latest evidence that President George Bush's foreign policy is fuelling a nuclear arms race in south Asia.

The photographs show a heavy-water reactor capable of producing enough plutonium to make 40-50 nuclear weapons a year, more than 20 times Pakistan's existing capacity, according to the US-based Institute for Science and International Security.

The new pictures come just weeks after a former head of Indian intelligence said that a controversial civilian nuclear fuel deal with the US will allow India to produce 50 warheads a year, by freeing up its existing fuel for military use."

What kind of suckers sit on the panel in "Institute for Science and International Security"?

Rome was not built in a day and neither is a nuclear reactor.

Its a well known fact, at least in India, the reactor is being built with Chinese help and is in the making since the 90s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khushab_Reactor)

"Last month, JK Sinha, a retired head of India's RAW intelligence service, came out publicly with what observers have long suspected(sic): that the nuclear fuel deal with the US will allow India to increase massively its stock of nuclear weapons."

Like you need the IQ of a Hawking to come to this conclusion.

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