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Pakistan's Other Nuclear Threat.(World Affairs)(Brief article)

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Byline: John Barry

As the Taliban battles Pakistan's military just 96 kilometers from Islamabad, one question frightens experts around the world: what about the country's nukes? The good news is that Pakistan's warheads, estimated at about 100, are guarded by an elite unit screened for loyalty. So long as the Army holds together, these main sites are essentially invulnerable. But Pakistan's nuclear-research and nuclear-production facilities are another story. Kahuta, the main R&D complex, covers many square kilometers and employs thousands of workers, and it is merely the biggest of more than a dozen such facilities. Pakistan has received $100 ...

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