Reining in Pakistan’s expanding nuclear weapons programme should be an international priority, according to an editorial in the New York Times which said that the country being home to many extremist groups adds to the dangers it presents for South Asia and the entire world.
The editorial, titled ‘The Pakistan Nuclear Nightmare’, said that with as many as 120 warheads, Pakistan could in a decade become the world’s third-ranked nuclear power, behind the US and Russia, but ahead of China, France and Britain. “Its arsenal is growing faster than any other country’s, and it has become even more lethal in recent years with the addition of small tactical nuclear weapons .”