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Friday, September 19, 2008

US: Pakistan boosting atom bomb ability

Pakistan is building supplementary plutonium-producing reactors to enhance its ability to produce more atomic bombs, a US report says. Pakistan is close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, and is well into building a third, and these reactors could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said in a report, the local media highlighted Friday. A row of cooling towers indicated the second reactor was close to completion and could be ready to operate in a year's time, according to Washington group's report. The 10-page report estimated the reactors would run on power of “about 100-megawatts or more”, which could enable the two combined to yield plutonium for 8 to 10 atomic bombs a year.

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It was the USA that gave Pakistan its nuclear weapon capability in the first place and now the Pakistan government isn't toeing the line and is becoming ever more anti US due to the US led invasion of Pakistans territorial integrity the yanks are now propoganding anti Pakistan warmongering rhetoric.

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