Pakistan is roughly 50 percent finished in building a fourth nuclear reactor site at a facility that generates plutonium for nuclear bombs, the Institute for Science and International Security said in a Monday analysis (see GSN, May 16, 2011).
"The completion of the fourth Khushab reactor would constitute a significant increase in Pakistan's ability to make plutonium which appears related to its goal of building a large number of smaller nuclear weapons," according to the Washington-based think tank. Pakistan is presently estimated to hold as many as 110 nuclear weapons (see GSN, April 11).
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