Nuclear Technology vs. Nuclear Weapons
Problems and issues presented
Out of all the countries that currently have nuclear weapons; the most unstable of them all is Pakistan. Although Pakistan’s sensationalist scenarios for nuclear weapons falling into extremist’ hands seem to be more than they are, it is never correct that Islamabad’s authorities have no control of several areas that border Afghanistan. In the last several years, the Islamists have made expansions to their action radius in open and visibly. The Al Qaeda terrorist organization continues to be active in Pakistan posing threats to the jobless youths who might be tempted to join hence making it more spread. People need the nuclear technology like electricity but when people misuse it becomes a threat even to the society involved.
The international community condemned the nuclear weapon tests in Pakistan in the year 1998. During that period, only Osama Bin Laden congratulated the Pakistanis. His arguments were that Muslims have the right to have nuclear weapons. The people operating in his group made contacts with Pakistanis in order to secure places in their secret places of making nuclear weapons. A declaration made by Osama Bin Laden in 1998 stated that it was a religious duty for all the Muslims to make sure that there is availability of nuclear weapons for Islamic higher purposes. The United States of America unsurprisingly became concerned about Pakistanis nuclear arsenal security. This was not a surprise because USA happens to be the number one in the nuclear target list of Al Qaeda. The network of Abdul Khan, which happens to be the father of bombs in Pakistan, had after all supplied the nuclear weapons illegally for years to South Korea, Libya and Iran. He had also made supplies to non-governmental actors and possible states with the equipment knowhow necessary for making nuclear weapons.
Pakistan also happens to be stuck in a political conflict with India, which are its long-term opponents and possessors of nuclear weapons. Despite the two sides starting their rapprochement in year 2003, Kashmir’s question, remains unsolved. His question is about the core of the conflict and nobody has managed to unravel it. The best evidence to show how the two countries are explosive is the 2000 to 2002 crisis after an attack failure on the Indian parliament and the Kargil war in 1999. The United States of America needed to intervene massively to prevent a nuclear disaster in both cases. The other attempt to provoke war between the two states was the Mumbai attack in November 2008.
This therefore concludes that Pakistan posses two dangers at ago. One danger is that it is likely that it cannot safeguard against unauthorized access of the weapons adequately. The other danger is that there is a military confrontation threat with India already and this could escalate into nuclear war. Nuclear technology is very common in the mentioned countries because there is excellent technical knowledge of nuclear. This has nothing to do Germany and its European associates therefore no harm or effect. Terrorists handling nuclear weapons endanger its security and using the same in south Asia would directly affect the Germans not only because of breaking the nuclear taboo which has been there since 1945 but also because of the likelihood of falling out nuclear
Diagnostic Questions for solving problems
How secure have Pakistan secured their nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons?
How is the domestic political situation stable in Pakistan?
What are the possible viewpoints for the conflict between Pakistan and India
Evidences weigh and alternative solutions
1. The nuclear tests in Pakistan in 1998 are the result for progress in safeguarding the nuclear technology and the nuclear weapons. There has been a clear organized structure of command since then under National Command Authority direction. The president formally chairs the National Command Authority therefore; there is a likelihood of the armed forces taking charge in times of crisis. The nuclear technology ways with physical protection connect to the superseded dangers. The extremists using the nuclear programs of Pakistan as a risk supersede the dangers. After the discovery of Khan plotting network in 2003, Islamabad put comprehensive new export control laws into place. It however unclear whether there is still a continuity of effective implementation of the laws.
2. Islamist groups remain the smallest population in the Pakistani society. This means that the nuclear technology is also not much in the same society. There is still no clear evidence to show if the international community will side with the forces of democracy in times of conflict making them accept a nuclear security weakening. There is also unclear evidence of if it will step down by indirectly backing the armed forces because of its strategic protection of nuclear security.
3. India and Pakistan began to take significant steps in 2003 towards rapprochement and there is still no discovery of lasting solutions to Kashmir conflicts. However, already there are implemented measures of confidence building.
Conclusion defense
The improved relationship between Pakistan and India does not influence the Pakistan army’s interest in maintaining tensions in its relationship with India.
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