Interestingly, the United States is deeply concerned about Pakistan’s “loose nuclear weapons” and is said to have an emergency plan to capture Pakistan’s nuclear drugs if risks arise.
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The United States plans to “snatch” Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
U.S. concerns over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal for decades. NBC News reportedly developed a contingency plan to “snatch” Pakistan’s nuclear weapons if the U.S. president believes they pose a threat to the U.S. or its interests. NBC News reported that plans have been laid out for handling the worst situation in Pakistan and reported on several U.S. officials who said that ensuring Pakistan’s nuclear weapons security has long been a U.S. security priority even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The report proposes scenarios including Pakistan’s fall into internal chaos, serious attacks on nuclear facilities, hostilities and an outbreak of India, or Islamic extremists in charge of the government or Pakistani military. Arsenal. The report said there was growing suspicion among U.S. officials that Osama had support within the ISI, and that Abbottabad’s action led those in Washington to believe that the orchestrated lightning strike campaign to ensure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons could succeed. Following the raid of Bin Laden, U.S. military officials testified before Congress that the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the threat posed by “loose nuclear weapons” – nuclear weapons or materials outside government control. Early Pentagon reports also outlined the situation where U.S. military will intervene to ensure there is a possibility of falling into wrong nuclear weapons. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistan’s most famous nuclear physicist and human rights advocate, said it would be foolish for the United States to try to control Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. “They are said to be hidden under mountains, in the tunnels of cities, and conventional air force and army bases,” he said. “The US snatch could lead to war; absolutely not attempts.”
Despite such comments, interviews with U.S. officials, military reports and even testimony from Congress show that Pakistan’s weapons have been the subject of ongoing discussions, scenarios, war games, and even U.S. intelligence and special forces regarding the so-called “Snatch-and-Grab” operation. “It is safe to assume that the worst situation has already happened within the U.S. government about Pakistan’s nuclear weapons,” Roger Cressey, deputy director of counterterrorism at Clinton and Bush, told NBC News. “This issue remains one of the highest priorities for the U.S. intelligence community and the White House.”
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Pakistan’s “emerging threat” to the United States
In the 2011 NBC News report, the US attention to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal will only develop over time as Pakistan stocks more nuclear weapons and gains greater military power. A decade later in 2021, Brookings article mentioned the U.S. plan to capture Pakistan’s nuclear weapons: “Indeed, since the shock of 9/11, Pakistan has represented a daunting question Kalb. “When asked about the plan repeatedly, U.S. officials fuse the cleverness of “no comments” (even in ruthless words).
Last year, the United States was shocked by the new developments in Pakistan. A senior White House official said in December that Pakistan, armed with nuclear weapons, is developing the capabilities of long-range ballistic missiles that could ultimately enable it to attack targets outside South Asia, thus becoming an “emerging threat” to the United States. The surprise revelation of Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer highlights the once-linked distance between Washington and Islamabad has deteriorated since the evacuation of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021.
In accepting Carnegie International Peace donations, Finer said that the number of nuclear-armed countries with missiles that can reach the U.S. home country is “very small, and they are often confrontational”, naming Russia, North Korea and China. “So, frankly, it’s hard to see Pakistan’s actions as an emerging threat to the United States,” he said, an official told Reuters that the threat to the United States was a decade away.
Finer’s speech comes the day after Washington announced a new round of sanctions related to Pakistan’s ballistic missile development plan, including the first targeting state-owned defense agencies that monitor the plan.
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