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Article: Banning South Asia's Bombs
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 31, 1989
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CHINA ASIDE, no Third World country has a nuclear bomb, and the
United States has rightly sought to keep it that way. The question
is hottest in South Asia, where a fearful India, to match China's
bomb, surreptitiously went to work and exploded a "peaceful" nuclear
device in 1974. A fearful Pakistan stepped up its own surreptitious
bomb program. Washington protested. Pakistan pleaded its key role
in supporting the Afghan resistance. That bought unhappy American
tolerance for a decade, and in that time Pakistan brought its program
to a point where the United States may now be required by its
nonproliferation law to cut off Pakistan's considerable aid.
Except there's a new wrinkle. ...