Re: Pakistan to test fire nuclear missile tomorrow

On Jul 26, 10:29 am, Mr.B1ack <b...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arun Bansi <arunba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
By Hanif Khalid

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will possibly test-fire nuclear missile tomorrow
(Tuesday). Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani along with senior
officials of the armed forces of Pakistan will witness the
experimental flight of the missile, which carries warheads.

Civil and military personalities will reach the test fire range in
north Punjab through helicopters to watch the test fire. After
becoming the prime minister, Gilani will first time witness the Ghauri
ballistic missile test fire.

Being Prime Minister, Gilani was made Chairman of National Command and
Control Authority. Earlier, Asif Zardari was the chairman of the
Authority as a president of the state. The missile, which will be test
fired tomorrow, is capable to drop conventional and nuclear warheads
up to the distance of 1050 kilometres. This is a liquid fuel missile.
Prime Minister Gilani will address the civil and military
personalities and scientists and engineers on the occasion.

Article Source:http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=252944

   Well, with that range they could hit pretty
   much any place in India, definitely all of
   the major population centers.

   A bit of a mystery why they went with a liquid-
   fueled military rocket though. They're 'messy',
   require maintenence, take time to fuel-up, require
   a lot of supporting hardware and crews. Solid
   fuel designs are better for military purposes.
   Maybe payload capacity was the deciding factor,
   there's a little more zip using liquids.  

   Unfortunately, this will just further exacerbate
   the long 'cold war' between India and Pakistan.
   They should be DE-esclating instead ... shift
   to smaller nukes on short-range rockets suited
   to deter an invasion force instead of big nukes
   on big rockets intended to incinerate umpteen
   million civilians.

   North Korea and Iran may talk big ... but if
   there's going to be a nuclear war I really feel
   it's going to be between India and Pakistan -
   with final casualties near the 100 million mark
   after the fallout and failed infrastructure do
   their dirty work.

   Might be a good object lesson for the rest of
   the world however ....- Hide quoted text -

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Ummm, yeah. But not the lesson you think there is. The real lesson is
don't allow religous differences access to WMD.

When the point of contention is political or economic, half-way
rational people are running both places and understand that there is a
real downside even to winning such a conflict.
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