HISTORY 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Suppliers Group
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India"s nuclear explosive materials are vulnerable to theft, u. s. officials and experts say. An estimated 90 to 110 indian nuclear bombs are stored in six or so government-run sites patrolled by the same security force. The obama administration is instead trying to avoid any dispute that might interrupt a planned expansion of u. s. military sales to delhi. Nuclear security lapses: several kilograms of what authorities described as semi-processed uranium were stolen by a criminal gang, allegedly with pakistani links, from a state mine in. In 2008, another criminal gang was caught attempting to smuggle low-grade uranium, capable of being used in a primitive radiation-dispersal device, from one of india"s state-owned mines across the border to nepal. The paramilitary central industrial security force (cisf), has a total of 95,000 personnel under civilian rather than military control and a million budget, is supposed to keep all these nuclear materials from leaking from india"s plants.
