Tag Archive: plutonium
You are browsing the tag archive for plutonium.
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program expanding rapidly
New imagery shows that Pakistan’s second plutonium reactor is nearing completion, which will greatly expand its bomb-making capacity. Expert David Albright of ISIS reports that construction of its third reactor is also continuing. In a similar report last year he wrote that the increased production could be to make smaller weapons able to be fitted on Pakistan’s cruise missiles or to make thermonuclear weapons as “both India and Pakistan appear on the verge of greatly expanding their production of nuclear weapons”. US modellers in April published findings that an India-Pakistan nuclear war would have devastating effects on the global environment, through massive depletion of the ozone layer.
