How Civilian Are Pakistan’s and India’s “Civilian” Nuclear Programs?

The phrase “civilian nuclear program” implies a clean line: reactors that generate electricity, isotopes for medicine, and research neutrons on one side, and the enrichment plants and plutonium reactors that feed a weapons stockpile on the other. Across most of the world, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) polices that line through comprehensive safeguards. In South Asia, the line barely … Read more The post How Civilian Are Pakistan’s and India’s “Civilian” Nuclear Programs? appeared

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