‘$100m US aid for Pakistan to keep its nukes out of extremists’ reach’
June 30, 2009
The US is providing technical support at an estimated cost of 100 million dollars to Pakistan in order to keep that country’s nuclear arsenal out of the extremists reach and prevent accidents.
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 dollars 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.
The author quotes a former national security official as saying that if the US is involved, “we can make sure they don’t start testing, or start a war.”
Source: thedailystar.net
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