ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhran

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

Sixteen years after India created history by becoming the sixth country to have tested nuclear bombs and joining the elite nuclear club on May 11, 1998, Pak intelligence agency, ISI, is making a lot of efforts to get a sample of the sand in Pokhran. The ISI even today, is reportedly trying to spy this area and get the sand samples of the area in Pokhran where the nuclear tests were conducted.

At the tail end of Pokaran field firing range, the spot where nuclear test was done, is under strict vigil and ISI has not been able to succeed in its efforts. The 3.5km long road is closely guarded and one has to pass four strictly guarded gates to get there. Even till today, the then director of United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), George Tenent feels disappointed at not being able to get the hint of the nuclear test conducted by India in 1998.
ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhran - The Times of India

I suggest a UAV which could land, take a soil sample, and take off again. Easy. :)
 

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

You missed the part which says "Pakistan"
They have RC helicopters as UAVs
An advanced nation like Pakistan possesses teleportation technology. I am sure it could teleport some of its jihadis...oops I meant spies to India and take the soil sample.What is the need of UAVs and RCs.:rofl:
 

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

watch out @Peter u r asking for teleportation to pak........ they will hide u like Osama bin Laden.................it will take 10 12 years to locate u
 
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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

Why didn't they take a air sample of pakistan some radiation would have been detected. When pakistan
Conducted their test us u-2 detected minimal levels over pakistan.
 

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

Why didn't they take a air sample of pakistan some radiation would have been detected. When pakistan
Conducted their test us u-2 detected minimal levels over pakistan.
Analysis of irradiated soil would be much more definitive in determining weapon yield, I believe. Downwind sampling of radiation levels would have to be combined with cloud observation immediately after the blast to be useful for those calculations.

FM 3-3-1 Chptr 3 Introduction to Nuclear Operations
 

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

Why we do not gift the pakis the sand. Mix it up with some GSLV exhaust residue and a contract note from national stock exchange and also a book of the Indian Constitution.
 

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Re: ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhr

SInce the test were in 1998 .. is it any useful now(being test could be inconclusive now)... most residue is underground and i would be under the impression that the above ground soil would have at least moved or lost quick decay particles.. this being a desert
 

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