Apropos of what I was saying about India hitting Pakistan's nukes if it looks like the fundamentalist Muslims will get to them, here's an article I just saw, excerpted. Adding to this report, I saw some Pakistani high school kids, in a physics class (BTW, a physics class such as one might see at the Bronx High School of Science, not your typical h.s.), explaining with great enthusiasm that they were all planning to become "mujuhadeen" to sacrifice themselves for the Jihad. This is what the West will be facing over the next generation. Keep your powder dry. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001324777,00.html THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 2001 The nuclear threat Pakistan could lose control of its arsenal BY NIGEL HAWKES West's worst scenario A LEADING authority on Pakistans nuclear programme has given warning of a nightmare scenario in which a destabilised Pakistan lost control of its nuclear weapons to supporters of the Taleban. ... Mr Perkovich said that Pakistan has about two to three dozen potential nuclear weapons, all based on highly enriched uranium. Tests carried out in 1998 demonstrated that they work. Pakistan also has medium-range missiles capable of reaching targets in India, if no farther afield. In normal times, they keep the warheads separate from the missiles, he said, and the fissile uranium  the core of the weapon  is not kept in the warhead, which consists of electronics and high explosives, but doesnt have the fissile core in it. Its all dressed up and nowhere to go. ... The fissile core, about the size of a melon and weighing up to 66lb, can be sub-divided into segments that can be stored separately. So the entire weapon can be split into components that in themselves are innocuous. --end excerpt-- DAY-BY-DAY COVERAGE * Sept 14 * Sept 15 * Sept 17 * Sept 18 * Sept 19 * Sept 20 DONATIONS HELP CROSSWORD SEARCH CONTACT US TERMS & CONDITIONS