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by SSridhar
03 Feb 2004 15:27
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004
Replies: 324
Views: 93772

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004

TSP will decide whether to proecute AXK - Boucher. The United States has said it was for Pakistan to decide whether to prosecute scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan for leaking nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran. "They are the ones conducting the invetigation and making any decisions as to...
by SSridhar
02 Feb 2004 23:16
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004
Replies: 324
Views: 93772

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/news.jsp?news=asia&an=

Pakistan's nuclear weapons, missile program cost $3.2 bil.
Out of which, USD 2B ended up with AQK leaving very little for the programme as such.
by SSridhar
02 Feb 2004 19:08
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004
Replies: 324
Views: 93772

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004

Consequently, Pakistani authorities have devised a strategy under which they will urge the US to back off their nuclear facilities, in exchange for help in extracting the US from the imbroglio in which it finds itself in neighboring Afghanistan. From the above post by Nachiketa, it is obvious that ...
by SSridhar
02 Feb 2004 13:19
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004
Replies: 324
Views: 93772

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 Jan 2004

From the Brookings Op-ed... and it shouldn't weaken Pakistan so much militarily that it invites Indian aggression What a load of bull. TSP has attacked every time it got sufficient shipments of arms from the US or a bale-out from IMF. That's history. Even today, TSP army officers take an oath to ave...
by SSridhar
30 Jan 2004 16:12
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

Along with the investigation into TSP's nuclear affairs, there should be investigation into the US governments that knowingly let this happen.
by SSridhar
30 Jan 2004 11:03
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

Nuclear Shenanigans by Najam Sethi in TFT. Dr A Q Khan has been at the heart of our nuclear programme. His secret “successes” made Kahuta Research Laboratories an unaccountable state institution within the larger, unaccountable praetorian state of Pakistan. Dr Khan has accumulated extraordinary wea...
by SSridhar
28 Jan 2004 16:42
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

Originally posted by Rangudu: Originally posted by SSridhar: This is another lie. Pakistan and China agreed on transfer of M-11 missiles in 1988, much before Pakistan even placed orders for the F-16 in 1989. Anything to substantiate this? Rangudu, Here it is. China reportedly began discussing possi...
by SSridhar
28 Jan 2004 10:33
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

Tim's Post In 1990, the United States canceled F-16 aircraft sales to Pakistan. Without these jets, Pakistan looked elsewhere for missiles that could carry nuclear weapons. This is another lie. Pakistan and China agreed on transfer of M-11 missiles in 1988, much before Pakistan even placed orders f...
by SSridhar
28 Jan 2004 00:04
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

from the above link: As long as Khan's group delivered the goods, no state authority questioned its tactics. This is a load of cr@p. How would any Govt not know what its scientists are doing in WMD related areas ? If Pakistan lost all meaningful contact with the West, radical internal forces could p...
by SSridhar
23 Jan 2004 21:31
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 97231

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

Originally posted by jarugn: Musharaff confesses Pakistani scientists sold nuclear secrets - Finally! Nobody buys this, not even his own TSPians. In the tightly controlled and monitored Nukelaar world, such large scale clandestine dealings involving multiple countries over such long periods of time...
by SSridhar
20 Jan 2004 08:24
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
Replies: 332
Views: 125452

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003

I see KRL being more frequently referred to as Kahuta Research Labs rather than Khan Research Labs.
by SSridhar
02 Jan 2004 10:30
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
Replies: 332
Views: 125452

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003

The Americans are likely to work on India through Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Already, this statement vies for top spot for the joke of the year.
by SSridhar
23 Dec 2003 19:20
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
Replies: 340
Views: 91650

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003

What happened to the two TSP nuke scientists who went to Myanmar immediately after the Afghan ops started ?
by SSridhar
30 Nov 2003 23:37
Forum: The Kargil Archive
Topic: Kargil Revisited
Replies: 329
Views: 166073

Re: Kargil Revisited

Originally posted by Rangudu: After the Nazi Germany, has there been any other country that has been as bad as the Pakistanis in using lies and bland denials as a substitute for state policy? It is just not the lies...there are many other similarities. Both of them believed in their racial superior...
by SSridhar
04 Oct 2003 19:17
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: 1st Chennai Airshow - 2003
Replies: 34
Views: 30470

Re: 1st Chennai Airshow - 2003

aditya.g, the venue was the old Meenambakkam Airport.
by SSridhar
26 Sep 2003 23:11
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: 1st Chennai Airshow - 2003
Replies: 34
Views: 30470

Re: 1st Chennai Airshow - 2003

Harry, excellent photos and writeup. I happened to be in Chennai on that date and was able to videocam the rehearsal and the finale. Of course amatuer quality.
by SSridhar
22 Sep 2003 10:54
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions
Replies: 48
Views: 26723

Re: Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions

Daulat, I also consider it as accepting the fact that India's considerations for nuclear weapons transcend just TSP.
by SSridhar
20 Sep 2003 10:43
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions
Replies: 48
Views: 26723

Re: Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions

Editorial in Arab News {Posted in full as the site does not maintain archives} The UK’s Guardian newspaper has run a story claiming that Saudi Arabia is looking at the idea of acquiring nuclear weapons or, alternatively, of a military alliance with a country which would provide it with nuclear cove...
by SSridhar
12 Sep 2003 21:35
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Indian NCA formalized
Replies: 82
Views: 37043

Re: Indian NCA formalized

Can anyone please post exact exercpt of the Mirage 2000 nuke trials
Dinesh, see pp382-383 of Weapons of Peace.

There is a Gurmeet Kanwal article (IDSA ?) on safety of Indian nuclear weapons. Sorry, I do not have a URL. But, you should be able to search within IDSA site.
by SSridhar
04 Apr 2003 10:15
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90
Replies: 26
Views: 24941

Re: Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90

When Indira Gandhi asked the FM whether he was planning to topple her thru' a coup. And a naughty answer from him. This link also talks about a biographical film of Sam Bahadur.
by SSridhar
03 Apr 2003 20:16
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90
Replies: 26
Views: 24941

Re: Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90

There is an interesting and historic part played by the Field Marshal in the accession of J&K to India. He (then a Colonel) accompanied V.P.Menon to get the Instrument signed by Maharaja Hari Singh. His statement calls the bluff of TSP propaganda that the instrument was signed after the Indian a...
by SSridhar
03 Apr 2003 16:50
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90
Replies: 26
Views: 24941

Field Marshal Manekshaw turns 90

Sir, many happy returns from a grateful Indian. Manekshaw turns 90 [The Hindu, 03 April 2003 Legendary military figure Field Marshal S H F J Manekshaw, the master strategist who fashioned India's victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, turned 90 today. Manekshaw is in the Capital and is being felicit...
by SSridhar
15 Feb 2002 22:51
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 3)
Replies: 25
Views: 14445

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 3)

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Arun_S: This 1 ton Cryo engine test (with 1300 Kg fuel) in 1980's could be an indication of ICBM related activity ;) though I am not convinced of its military usefullness. <hr></blockquote> I t...
by SSridhar
25 Jan 2002 09:35
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
Replies: 227
Views: 82264

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sarma: From the clip I could see on the small NDTV window, it seems shorter than Agni-I. <hr></blockquote> Sarma, I think NDTV is showing Agni I & II from its Archives. AFAIK, no pictures o...