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Doubts on safety of South Asian nuclear facilities

South Asian Nuclear Safety in Fallible Hands Express Tribune, By Robin Fernandez May 23, 2011KARACHI: A US expert on nuclear weapons safety has raised doubts about the “civilian and military institutions” in Pakistan and India and said both of them are bound to make mistakes.

In a webcast lecture made available late Friday, Scott D Sagan said that if developed countries with competent civilian controls can make errors it was safe to assume that countries with “less vigorous civilian controls, less professionalised militaries” will behave in dangerous ways.

According to Sagan, a professor of political science at Stanford University, some states that have nuclear weapons don’t see them as a deterrent but as a shield behind which they can take more aggressive action…..http://tribune.com.pk/story/174148/south-asian-nuclear-safety-in-fallible-hands-us-expert/

May 24, 2011 - Posted by | general

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