Pakistan Nuclear Projects Raise US Fears

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From The Guardian:

• Two reactors nearing completion at Khushab
• Report questions security of nuclear material

Pakistan is continuing to expand its nuclear bomb-making facilities despite growing international concern that advancing Islamist extremists could overrun one or more of its atomic weapons plants or seize sufficient radioactive material to make a dirty bomb, US nuclear experts and former officials say.

David Albright, previously a senior weapons inspector for the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in Iraq, said commercial satellite photos showed two plutonium-producing reactors were nearing completion at Khushab, about 160 miles south-west of the capital, Islamabad.

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My Comment: These fears are completely justified. Theft of enough nuclear material to produce a dirty bomb would have profound geopolitical consequences that would be unprecedented in its outcry and reaction. The U.S. understands this .... but Pakistan is going down a different road .... hence the concern.