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Article: Pakistan (and India) Can't Afford the Bomb
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 12, 1987
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Mushahid Hussain's article {"Why Pakistan Needs a Nuclear
Option," op-ed, July 29} contains the kind of glib arguments that
have long been fed to the American people. The way I see it,
Pakistan (or, for that matter, India) needs a nuclear option like it
needs a pain in the head. Having a credible nuclear weapons program
involves a lot more than letting off a bang that will register on
seismographs around the world; it is far more complex than acquiring
squadrons of F-16s or MiG-29s. The projects in Pakistan and India,
which require testing and delivery systems, are enormously expensive
and will result in an unbearable, unfortunate and unnecessary drag on
the underdeveloped economies of ...
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