This can't end well at all:

[underlankers]

http://thediplomat.com/2013/01/02/pakistans-new-nuclear-problem/?all=trueRead more... )

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[terminator44]

Huh. I thought they already had such weapons. After all, they couldn't hope to stop an Indian invasion by conventional means.

[underlankers]

India has no interest in invading them. Otherwise Pakistan would have ceased to exist circa 1972. They had and have strategic, not tactical, weapons. That Davy Crocket weapon was a tactical nuke, the Smiling Buddha and his little friends were and are strategic.

[tcpip]

I do wonder what other species has such a propensity for self-destruction (and the first person who suggests lemmings I will slap with a fish).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls

LJ has gone nuts with iframe tags on me :(

[papasha_mueller]

Pakistan itself seemed to be a good idea to Brits only.
They screw up everything they can before being kicked off, you know.

[sandwichwarrior]

You may find this interesting...

http://vixra.org/pdf/1106.0009v1.pdf

Seems that you may be able to drive a Deuterium-tritium fusion reaction, without the use of a fission element.

The resulting ka-boom would be small by H-Bomb standards but very clean (little to no fallout) just some x-rays, gamma-rays, and free-floating neutrons.

...and seeing as our current efforts of stoping nuclear proliferation are based on preventing Uranium enrichment. Anything that allows you to skip/ignore that particular step is an enabling technology.

That said, there is still a lot of blank space between "working theory" and "working prototype"

[chron_job]

I figured the "Stop proliferation by preventing Uranium enrichment" concept had its days numbered when first I heard about Laser Enrichment back in the mid 90's, and the theoretical possibility of an enrichment plant that would fit in a small apartment (minus gas inputs and outputs)

Come to think of it, GE just got its first license to start processing via SILEX back last September.

[sophia_sadek]

Tactical nukes were present during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Each Soviet sub had a tactical nuke torpedo for use in blasting US ships out of the troposphere. Fear of a conventional conflict going nuclear is one of the things that got JFK to cool his jets when his advisers where champing at the bit to invade Cuba.

Pakistan has been a problem since it was created as a wedge to divide the Indian sub-continent. It presents more of a threat to regional stability in that part of the world than any other nation. A significant degree of that threat can be chalked up to American foreign policy.