Found the following very bemusing ..Does this imply that the us and india were in close collaboration with a view to destroying pakistan's nuclear capabilities???
Do they still have sinister plans up their sleeves now that it is becoming evident that pakistan is leaving india behind in missile technology??
'India planned air strikes on Pak N-sites in early 90s'
By Amir Mateen
WASHINGTON: India planned air strikes against Pakistan's nuclear sites in the early 1990s on the pattern of Israel's attack against Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons plant.
A report published in a local Indian magazine, India Abroad, cited both US and Indian sources that the US was cognizant of the serious consideration by India's nuclear establishment and its army to take out Pakistan's nuclear weapons with "a single shot."
It claims that both the Americans and the Indians were convinced that Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities could be destroyed with one strike, but not before Pakistan launched a reactive strike at one of India's major cities.
It quotes an unnamed former senior Indian government official, who was reportedly involved in India's nuclear weapons programme, confirming that such a strike had indeed been seriously considered and that the Indian military had convinced the government that it could do it. But what had thwarted such an attack was the inability of the military and the nuclear establishment to give the political establishment an iron guarantee that a Pakistani reactive nuclear strike could be prevented and that no major cities in India would be affected, says the report.
"The Indian army just could not give that assurance," the Indian official turned academic was quoted as saying. He recalled that the possible "horrific scenario", of a city like Mumbai being in the path of a Pakistani attack and leading to the panic exodus of millions of people had resulted in the military's plan being vetoed by the political powers that be.
The story suggests that the CIA's paranoia about a possible nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is largely prompted by fears about the compromised security of Islamabad's nuclear weapons storage sites.
It draws a somewhat flimsy scenario saying that all the six such storage sites were under military control, Pakistan's military could not shift weapons from at least three of them to more secure sites "because of opposition from Islamic radical elements, who knew of them and had at least on one occasion in the past thwarted their movement."
The paper claims that the US is confident about the secure storage of India's nuclear weapons and the secrecy that surrounds their storage sites, but the same can't be said about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. That the US never expressed such an apprehension has been conveniently ignored by the report.
Do they still have sinister plans up their sleeves now that it is becoming evident that pakistan is leaving india behind in missile technology??
'India planned air strikes on Pak N-sites in early 90s'
By Amir Mateen
WASHINGTON: India planned air strikes against Pakistan's nuclear sites in the early 1990s on the pattern of Israel's attack against Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons plant.
A report published in a local Indian magazine, India Abroad, cited both US and Indian sources that the US was cognizant of the serious consideration by India's nuclear establishment and its army to take out Pakistan's nuclear weapons with "a single shot."
It claims that both the Americans and the Indians were convinced that Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities could be destroyed with one strike, but not before Pakistan launched a reactive strike at one of India's major cities.
It quotes an unnamed former senior Indian government official, who was reportedly involved in India's nuclear weapons programme, confirming that such a strike had indeed been seriously considered and that the Indian military had convinced the government that it could do it. But what had thwarted such an attack was the inability of the military and the nuclear establishment to give the political establishment an iron guarantee that a Pakistani reactive nuclear strike could be prevented and that no major cities in India would be affected, says the report.
"The Indian army just could not give that assurance," the Indian official turned academic was quoted as saying. He recalled that the possible "horrific scenario", of a city like Mumbai being in the path of a Pakistani attack and leading to the panic exodus of millions of people had resulted in the military's plan being vetoed by the political powers that be.
The story suggests that the CIA's paranoia about a possible nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is largely prompted by fears about the compromised security of Islamabad's nuclear weapons storage sites.
It draws a somewhat flimsy scenario saying that all the six such storage sites were under military control, Pakistan's military could not shift weapons from at least three of them to more secure sites "because of opposition from Islamic radical elements, who knew of them and had at least on one occasion in the past thwarted their movement."
The paper claims that the US is confident about the secure storage of India's nuclear weapons and the secrecy that surrounds their storage sites, but the same can't be said about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. That the US never expressed such an apprehension has been conveniently ignored by the report.
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