The author of the report, Andrew Cockburn (pictured above), argues that the Indo-US deal blew an enormous hole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. - File photo From Dawn:
WASHINGTON: The United States is helping Pakistan modernise its nuclear arsenal in hopes to make them safer, says a report released on Sunday.
Andrew Cockburn, a renowned author who has written several books on security issues, says that the official aim of US technical support, at an estimated cost of $100 million a year, is to prevent accidents and to ensure that they are out of the extremists’ reach.
But in pursuit of this objective, ‘it is inevitable that the US is not only rendering the warheads more operationally reliable, we are also transferring the technology required to design more sophisticated warheads without having to test them’, the report adds.
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