Pakistan is developing non-strategic nuclear arms: US experts

[EzioAltaïr]

Pakistan uses centrifuge yellow cake method (same as Iran) takes usually 3-5 years to have enough material
for a warhead now claim to have faster centrifuges from Japan and China?

 

[farhan_9909]

Pakistan using uranium warheads still :O

when 4th reactor at khushab almost completed

no wonder you guys are as good as dead

anyway Indian media victims

 

[Tshering22]

So Pakistanis intend to field tactical nukes for a war that is not happening?

Very far-sighted plan... imagine an armored conflict in deserts of the opposite borders and prepare when there's a full blown war happening on the other border with enemies rampaging bordering cities daily.

Wow. I am impressed with Pakistan's jurnails.. honestly.

 

[EzioAltaïr]

Pakistan using uranium warheads still :O

when 4th reactor at khushab almost completed

no wonder you guys are as good as dead

anyway Indian media victims

Does not matter whether they use plutonium, uranium, or whatever the hell they use. How much weapon grade nuclear material do you guys have? How much of it has already been used? How long would it take to replace the used stock?

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Pakistan using uranium warheads still :O

when 4th reactor at khushab almost completed

no wonder you guys are as good as dead

anyway Indian media victims

Show me one link where Pakistan is using plutonium in weapons??

 

[sayareakd]

Pakistan using uranium warheads still :O

when 4th reactor at khushab almost completed

no wonder you guys are as good as dead

anyway Indian media victims

wonder if Pakistani terrorists will going to take out this 4th nuke reactor in next attack, you are already short of two AWAC, what you are left with are cheap chini outdated maal.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Pakistan wants to use heavy water in tactical nukes. India is the largest Heavy water (tritium) producer
in the world. India should produce hydrogen bombs -minimal fallout increased devastation.


Rediff On The NeT: So, it was an H-Bomb after all

So, it was an H-Bomb after all

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Latest Fissile material ranking India comes 4th largest military stockpile These are estimates
since no country will reveal their real numbers.


(http://www.nti.org/media/pdfs/milit...stockpile.pdf?_=1340643944&_=1340643944Metric Tons)


Military Fissile Material Stockpile

Third largest in this chart?

 

[EzioAltaïr]

Self Delete: Saw the meaning.

 

[farhan_9909]

As opposed to uranium enrichment, the plutonium programme is indigenously and locally developed and culminated under watchful eyes of PAEC Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan. In the end of 1970s, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission began to pursue Plutonium production capabilities. Consequently Pakistan built the 40-50 MW (megawatt, thermal) Khushab Research Reactor at Joharabad, and in April 1998, Pakistan announced that the nuclear reactor was operational. The Khushab reactor project was initiated in 1986 by PAEC Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan, who informed the world that the reactor was totally indigenous, i.e. that it was designed and built by Pakistani scientists and engineers. Various Pakistani industries contributed in 82% of the reactor's construction. The Project-Director for this project was Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood. According to public statements made by the U.S. Government officials, this heavy-water reactor can produce up to 8 to 10 kg of plutonium per year with increase in the production by the development of newer facilities,[55] sufficient for at least one nuclear weapon.[56] The reactor could also produce tritium if it were loaded with lithium-6, although this is unnecessary for the purposes of nuclear weapons, because modern nuclear weapon designs use 6Li directly. According to J. Cirincione of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Khushab's Plutonium production capacity has allowed Pakistan to develop lighter nuclear warheads that would be easier to deliver to any place in the range of the ballistic missiles.[citation needed]

The Plutonium separation takes place at the New Laboratories, a reprocessing plant, which was completed by 1981 by PAEC and is next to the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) near Islamabad, which is not subject to IAEA inspections and safeguards.

In late 2006, the Institute for Science and International Security released intelligence reports and imagery showing the construction of a new plutonium reactor at the Khushab nuclear site. The reactor is deemed to be large enough to produce enough plutonium to facilitate the creation of as many as "40 to 50 nuclear weapons a year."[57][58][59] The New York Times carried the story with the insight that this would be Pakistan's third plutonium reactor,[60] signaling a shift to dual-stream development, with Plutonium-based devices supplementing the nation's existing HEU stream to atomic warheads.

Pakistan tested plutonium capability in the sixth nuclear test, codename Chagai-II, on 30 May 1998 at Kharan Desert. In this test the most compact and sophisticated design, made to be carried by small delivery vehicles such as MIRV and cruise missiles, was tested.

As for Pakistan's plutonium capability, it has always been there, from the early 1970s onwards. However, there were only two logistic problems faced by PAEC. One was that Pakistan did not want to be an irresponsible state and the PAEC did not divert spent fuel from the safeguarded KANUPP for reprocessing at the New Labs. This was enough to build a whole arsenal of nuclear weapons straight away. The PAEC built its own plutonium and tritium production reactor at Khushab, known as Khushab-I reactor, beginning in 1985. The second one was allocation of resources.[

Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Uranium based warheads and liquid fuel missile are past tense now

read about khushab nuclear reactors
operational since 97
3 already completed while 4th almost completed

Khushab Nuclear Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Uranium based warheads and liquid fuel missile are past tense now

read about khushab nuclear reactors
operational since 97
3 already completed while 4th almost completed

Khushab Nuclear Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again these are still reactors being built and the production of
plutonium according to USA is insignificant. Pakistan is still 100%
uranium based nuclear weapons. India will have enough fissile material
for 700-1200 warheads annually when Fast breeder program is running but that again is
in the future until then third largest plutonium stockpile is being used.

 

[farhan_9909]

Again these are still reactors being built and the production of
plutonium according to USA is insignificant. Pakistan is still 100%
uranium based nuclear weapons. India will have enough fissile material
for 700-1200 warheads annually when Fast breeder program is running but that again is
in the future until then third largest plutonium stockpile is being used.

pakistanIS ACTIVELY producing plutonium since 1986 in the new labs

than khushab series reactors
the USA estimated that the first khushab reactor had the capability of producing materialenough 2-3 plutonium based warheads

now there are 4 reactors and more than 15 years are passed

lol 100%
the uranium based warheads might be expired by now and might not even count for 0.176% of pak total warheads stockpile