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Why are you not afraid of India’s nuclear weapons?” the official asked. "Because India is your friend, and the longtime policies of America and India converge. Between you and the Indians, you will fuck us in every way. The truth is that our weapons are less of a problem for the Obama Administration than finding a respectable way out of Afghanistan." Full Article at The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely
Because India is your friend, and the longtime policies of America and India converge. Between you and the Indians, you will fuck us in every way. The truth is that our weapons are less of a problem for the Obama Administration than finding a respectable way out of Afghanistan.
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Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
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We have confidence in the Pakistani government and the military’s control over nuclear weapons.
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you’d like control of our day-to-day deployment. But why should we give it to you? Even if there was a military coup d’état in Pakistan, no one is going to give up total control of our nuclear weapons. Never. Why are you not afraid of India’s nuclear weapons?
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We have huge . . . national-security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don’t end up having a nuclear-armed militant state.
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Their biggest threat right now comes internally
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I feel confident that the nuclear arsenal will remain out of militant hands. O.K.?
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we see no evidence that they are going to take over the state.
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make sure that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is secure—primarily, initially, because the Pakistan Army, I think, recognizes the hazards of those weapons’ falling into the wrong hands.
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I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals of that sort
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