Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal Insecure As US Alarm Intensifies -- The Australian
FACED with a surge of Islamic militant activity in Pakistan, the US Government is increasingly concerned about the potential vulnerability of Islamabad's nuclear arsenal.
Concerns include the potential for militants to snatch a weapon in transport or to insert sympathisers into laboratories or fuel-production facilities.
The US does not know where all of Pakistan's nuclear sites are located, and its concerns over the arsenal have intensified in the past two weeks since the Taliban entered Buner, a northwest district 110km from the capital.
The spread of the insurgency has left American officials less willing to accept blanket assurances from Pakistan that the weapons are safe.
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