NPR: How Safe Is It? Seymour Hersh On Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal

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Pakistan has an estimated 80 to 100 nuclear warheads. How secure are they? What are the chances they could fall into the hands of the extremists currently challenging Pakistani authorities?

In http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_hersh">an article for the November 16 edition of The New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh writes about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and what Pakistan and the U.S. are doing to keep it safe from extremists.

Hersh's article is called: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_hersh">Defending the Arsenal: In an Unstable Pakistan, Can Nuclear Warheads Be Kept Safe? He is a regular contributor to the magazine on matters of security and the military.

Parts 2,3,4 & 5 of this interview on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/im4wur2#g/u">here.

Full interview in one piece on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120346497">here.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=120346497">TRANSCRIPT

His http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYLDOyDihoI">interview with Rachel Maddow and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33886383/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/:transcript">transcript.

[snagglepuss]

1. .

[dotymed]

2. Maybe a break

in the perpetual wars? It was insane of Bush, to give Pakistan
a nuclear capability. If we get our troops home and commit the
"defense" money to a work program, and regulate the
greed that has become America, we can fix America. HR676
implemented this year, in increments....all of this and end
"free trade", that is positive "change I can
believe in." 

[ihavenobias]

3. #5 n/t