Plans To Safeguard Pakistan's Nukes Revealed

I truly hope that we are considering all of the options laid out here. Worst case scenarios of the Pakistani nukes falling into the hands of al Qaeda, bin Laden himself, or even a newly elected Prime Minister with ties to terrorism, could spell disaster for the entire region.

Please note that the options of securing the Paki nukes are put forth here by Frederick Kagan. Kagan is one of the strategists that came up with the "Surge" strategy for The Iraq War implemented earlier this year.

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Great reading in the full article here.

Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal
· Architect of Iraq surge draws up takeover options
· US fears army's Islamists might grab weapons
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-ClarkSaturday December 1, 2007The Guardian

The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.
In a series of scenarios drawn up for Pakistan, Frederick Kagan, a former West Point military historian, has called for the White House to consider various options for an unstable Pakistan.

These include: sending elite British or US troops to secure nuclear weapons capable of being transported out of the country and take them to a secret storage depot in New Mexico or a "remote redoubt" inside Pakistan; sending US troops to Pakistan's north-western border to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida; and a US military occupation of the capital Islamabad, and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan if asked for assistance by a fractured Pakistan military, so that the US could shore up President Pervez Musharraf and General Ashfaq Kayani, who became army chief this week.

He also noted how sections of Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment continued to be linked to Islamists and warned that the army, demoralised by having to fight in Waziristan and parts of North-West Frontier Province, might retreat from the borders, leaving a vacuum that would be filled by radicals.