Nuclear Thread - 4

[Lalitaditya]

I put that post here because it deals with a nuclear topic and how Aussies wrote in their papers that India was not advanced in the nuclear field. It is relevant to the nuclear thread but I will let the Admins decide on that.

[ravicv]

One by one, the chaprassi MMS's world is collapsing, and his false promises are being exposed. So, what happened to the "clean waiver", blah blah blah.......?



http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/18/stories/...721300.htm

[ravicv]

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One by one, the chaprassi MMS's world is collapsing, and his false promises are being exposed. So, what happened to the "clean waiver", blah blah blah.......?



http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/18/stories/...721300.htm

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My deepest and most humble apologies to chaprassi's for defaming and denigrating their profession, by calling the rent-boy, catamite, Quisling MMS a chaprassi.

[Arun_S]

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http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/Nig...00140.aspx

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For the Night of 7 July 2011







Pakistan-North Korea: Special comment. The international news media have reported that Pakistan provided North Korea the technology and sample centrifuges for making Highly Enriched Uranium for nuclear weapons.







The source of the revelation is a newly disclosed letter sent in 1998 from a senior North Korean official to Abdul Qader Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. The letter contains details of bribes or payoffs to then Chief of Army Staff General Jehangir Karamat and another general. It was signed by North Korean National Defense Commission member Chon Pyong Ho. The letter mentions missile components sent to Pakistan and the dispatch of a new emissary who has been in Egypt, Libya, Syria and Iran - all conventional weapons or missile clients of North Korea.







Pakistani officials have charged the letter is a forgery by A.Q. Khan so as to distribute blame for his conviction for selling strategic secrets. Khan is under house arrest, but always swore he acted under orders from the highest authorities. In 1998, those would have been General Karamat and then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Those luminaries always claimed Khan acted on his own in selling Pakistan's strategic nuclear secrets to North Korea.







US intelligence people have said the letter looks authentic, according to press reports. And this time they have it right. The transaction in 1998 involved strategic assets which North Korea and Pakistan guard jealously. Pakistan desperately needed a reliable nuclear weapons delivery system after India tested its nuclear weapons in 1998. Pakistan had tested its nuclear technology in response. The date of the letter is July 1998.







North Korea had plutonium for fissile material, but was in the market for uranium enrichment technology. North Korea had the NoDong medium range ballistic missile as a delivery system, a reliable weapons carrier, to trade for enrichment technology. Most nuclear weapons states have both plutonium and highly enriched uranium processes for producing fissile material.







The individuals mentioned in the letter include people who must be involved in such a transaction, namely General Karamat and Chon. Chon Pyong Ho was the chief of the Second Economic Committee, the North Korean name for the group that supervises the military industrial complex - all the plants that make ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons and all other military ordnance. He is a classmate of Kim Chong-il, who still chairs the National Defense Commission.







Karamat probably did not take a bribe as he claims. Any money from North Korea would have been diverted into Pakistan Army secret funds. Chon Pyong Ho's involvement indicates the highest level of the North Korean government was involved directly in the transaction. That raises a prima facie inference that Chon was dealing with his counterparts in Pakistan. RThe Chief of the Army Staff is the highest ranking military officer in Pakistan. A.Q. Khan was the project director and middleman.







The facts are that the four prototype uranium enrichment centrifuges that the North obtained were made in Pakistan and supplied by A.Q. Khan, by his own admission. The Ghauri missiles in the Pakistan Army came from North Korea and are NoDongs.







The obvious inference is that this was a high level arrangement authorized by both governments. This was not a simple swap because of the huge follow-on investments in land and equipment required to build Ghauri missile production and testing facilities and bases in Pakistan and to build a nuclear enrichment centrifuge cascade in North Korea. These were large-scael and expensive undertakings by both countries.







In short, in 1998, Pakistan, a US friend, provided nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, an enemy with whom the US was and is still at war. The letter adds details about the physical exchange of strategic assets in 1998.

[ramana]

Brilliant analysis by Nightwatch except its plain dead wrong in the sequence of events.



The Nodong/Ghauri missile was tested by TSP on 6 April, 1998 and Indian nuke tests were on 11-13 May 1998. So clearly the TSP had acquired and brandished the Nodong missile atleast a month before the nuke tests by India.

IOW the Pak acquitions of NoDong/Ghauri missile were priro to the nuke tests and throwing India into the mix Nightwatch loses his otherwise impeccable credibility.

[Arun_S]

[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14196372"]India: 'Massive' uranium find in Andhra Pradesh[/url]



19 July 2011 Last updated at 00:38 ET



Exploration work is underway in Tummalapalle [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14196372#story_continues_1"]

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India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh may have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world, the country's chief nuclear officer says.



Studies show Tummalapalle in Kadapa district could have reserves of 150,000 tonnes of the mineral, Atomic Energy Commission chief S Banerjee said.



India has estimated reserves of about 175,000 tonnes of uranium.



Analysts say the new reserves would still not be sufficient to meet India's growing nuclear energy needs.



Mr Banerjee said that studies at Tummalapalle have shown that the area "had a confirmed reserve of 49,000 tonnes and recent surveys indicate that this figure could go up even threefold" and become one of the world's largest uranium reserves.



The uranium deposits in the area appeared to be spread over 35km (21 miles), he said, adding that exploration work was going on in the area.



Mr Banerjee said the new findings were a "major development", but India's own uranium reserves would still fall short of meeting its nuclear energy needs.



"The new findings would only augment the indigenous supply of uranium. There would still be a significant gap. We would still have to import," he was quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper.



India is planning to set up some 30 reactors over as many years and get a quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy by 2050.

BTW this along with the previous so called new discovery that doubled the Indian Uranium reserved from 65 K tonnes to 130 K tonnes (that was announced last year) was known to key govt officials and PMO much before the 123 nuke deal was signed. Shows the extent of malified reasons purported by PMO to sell the nuke deal.



What this announcement does not report is what is teh average depth of teh find.



It is well known in public research circles that there are big deposits in southern India but they are located just below the Deccan trap basalt that is 1 to 2 KM thick

[Guest]

http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11...road-rage/



Fascinating peek inside the latest Atlantic (in a cover story shared with sister pub National Journal) on the perilous security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Payoff grafs:

…instead of moving nuclear material in armored, well-defended convoys, the [Pakistani government] prefers to move material by subterfuge, in civilian-style vehicles without noticeable defenses, in the regular flow of traffic…according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, the Pakistanis have begun using this low-security method to transfer not merely the “de-mated” component nuclear parts but “mated” nuclear weapons. Western nuclear experts have feared that Pakistan is building small, “tactical” nuclear weapons for quick deployment on the battlefield. In fact, not only is Pakistan building these devices, it is also now moving them over roads.

What this means, in essence, is this: In a country that is home to the harshest variants of Muslim fundamentalism, and to the headquarters of the organizations that espouse these extremist ideologies…nuclear bombs capable of destroying entire cities are transported in delivery vans on congested and dangerous roads. And Pakistani and American sources say that since the raid on Abbottabad, the Pakistanis have provoked anxiety inside the Pentagon by increasing the pace of these movements. In other words, the Pakistani government is willing to make its nuclear weapons more vulnerable to theft by jihadists simply to hide them from the United States, the country that funds much of its military budget.

[ramana]

Its Paki blackmail to US not to repeat Abortabad raid lest the jihadis get the loose nukes. Its their deterrent against US.