A Congressional Research Service report says Pakistan may have developed a second-strike capability — and nuclear parity with India. Facing a choice between redeploying its arsenal to multiple locations, as it did in 2001 as the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, or protecting them at a single location from insider theft, the report indicated Pakistan will move its weapons to underground, mobile or strategic locations. According to Michael Krepon [2]of the Ploughshares-funded Stimson Center [3], “The guardians of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal currently sit on the horns of a dilemma: Consolidation of Pakistan’s nuclear assets would protect most effectively against insider threats, while dispersion of Pakistan’s nuclear assets would protect most effectively against pre-emption by external threats.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/803
[2] http://ploughshares.org/expert/38
[3] http://www.stimson.org/
[4] http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C06%5C01%5Cstory_1-6-2009_pg7_6