{"id":192005,"date":"2009-05-23T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/23\/pakistan-is-expanding-nuclear-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T10:45:00","slug":"pakistan-is-expanding-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/23\/pakistan-is-expanding-nuclear-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Is Expanding Nuclear Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/3392\/pakistannuke6730329.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the JCS, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/world\/asia\/18nuke.html?hp\">testified that Pakistan is expanding its arsenal to Congress<\/a>: &#8220;WASHINGTON \u2014 Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/pakistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" title=\"More news and information about Pakistan.\">.<\/p>\n<p>While his response in public testimony did not contain any detail, we are talking at a significant increase in capability, including the creation of new reactors which can create bomb grade plutonium, which would allow for significantly more compact and weaponizable bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The Danger Room <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2009\/05\/sats-show-pakistan-super-sizing-its-nuclear-weapons-complex\/\">has a satellite pic showing the expansion of its facilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we have a borderline failed state, a civilian government that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> failed by most criteria, and they are building more nukes&#8230;.Delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the JCS, has testified that Pakistan is expanding its arsenal to Congress: &#8220;WASHINGTON \u2014 Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that . While his response in public testimony did not contain any detail, we are talking at a significant increase in capability, including the creation of new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}