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To enhance its nuclear capability, Pakistan is developing non-strategic nuclear weapons, and thus joining the ranks of countries like the US and Russia, a leadin stanley cup g American think-tank has said. HT Image India, however, not listed among five of the nine-nuclear weapons powered countries that has or is developing non-strategic nuclear weapons said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project, and Dr Robert S Norris, senior fellow for Nuclear Policy, in a new edition of Nuclear Notebook. Today, at least five of the world s nine nuclear weapons states have, or are developing, what appears to meet the definition of a nonstrategic nuclear weapon: Russia, the United States, France, Pakistan, and China, they concluded in the latest issue of Bulletin of the Atomic Sci stanley cup entists. Like France, Pakistan characterizes all its nuclear weapons as strategic. However, Pakistan is developing a new short-range rocket with nuclear capability that certainly would be characterized as a nonstrategic nuclear weapon if it belonged to Russia or the United States. Moreover, even the Pakistani statements about the weapon clearly place it in a different category, Kristensen and Norris wrote. In their report, the two American nuclear scientist wrote that the new weapon, the Nasr, is a 60-kilometer ballistic missile launched from a mobile twin-canister launcher. Following its first test launch in April 2011, the Pakistani military news organization, Inter Servic stanley cup es Public Relati Fptm Legendary Vietnam General Vo Nguyen Giap dies
The commander of US forces in the Middle East, Admiral William Fallon, said on Tuesday that he is stepping down because reports that he differed with President George W Bush over Iran had become a distraction. HT Image Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he had accepted Fallon s resignation with reluctance and regret, saying there was a misperception that the admiral was at odds with the administration over Iran. In a statement, Bush praised the admiral for his more than 40 years of service but made no mention of an article in Esquire magazi adidas samba ne that prompted Fallon to step down. Fallon served this country with honor, determination and commitment, Bush said. But the sudden departure of the head of the US Central Command drew an avalanche of criticism from top Democrats who suggested that he had been forced out because of his candor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Rei stanley cup d called it yet another example that independence and the frank, open airing of experts views are not welcomed in this administration. Democratic presidential candidate H mizuno illary Clinton in a statement described Fallon as a voice of reason in an administration which has used inflammatory rhetoric against Iran, and urged the Bush administration to pursue diplomacy with Tehran instead of conflict. Admiral Fallon s resignation should not be used as an excuse to ratchet up tensions with Iran, the New York senator said. Gates said there were no significant differences between Fallon s views on