Militancy feeds fears about Pakistan's nukes

Advisers to the Obama administration are disturbed by the possibility that Pakistan and its nuclear weapons might fall under the control of al Qaeda militants. George Perkovich of the Ploughshares-funded Carnegie Endowment for International Peace commented, "I would say that I thought [the threat] was exaggerated - that there were 10 or 12 other [threats] in Pakistan that were more probable and were also very grave - [but] it's gotten much worse in the last few years, and you have a sense of parts of Pakistan now becoming ungovernable by the Pakistani state." He added there must be a “focus on the nuclear danger in a way that I wouldn't have said was the case until recently. It's not an exaggeration to say that there is a risk."