'Pakistan Launched Nuke Programme After '71 War'

Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities

From Express Buzz:

WASHINGTON: Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons programme after its 1971 military defeat to India in order to "augment its inferior conventional forces," a Congressional report has said.

`China assisting Pakistan`s plutonium nuke programme`

"Pakistan's nuclear energy programme dates back to the 1950s, but it was the loss of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in a bloody war with India that probably triggered a political decision in January 1972 (just one month later) to begin a secret nuclear weapons programme," the Congressional report said.

The report on Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme was submitted to lawmakers last month by Congressional Research Service (CRS), a research wing of the US Congress, which regularly prepares reports for Congressmen.

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My Comment: What is interesting about the article is the observation that China may have played a crucial role in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. Since North Korea's nuclear facilities are almost an exact copy of China's ..... one will have to assume that at some point in time China was a major proliferator of its own nuclear technologies ..... not only to North Korea, but to Pakistan as well.