Pakistan's nuclear bases targeted by al-Qaeda

A recent paper for West Point Military Academy’s anti-terrorism journal detailed three attacks against Pakistani nuclear weapons bases by al-Qaeda and the Taliban since November 2007. Dr. Anupam Srivastava of the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia (a former Ploughshares Fund grantee) told The Daily Telegraph that he believed more attacks had occurred and the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants would intensify its assaults. Dr. Srivastava believed an increase was inevitable because of growing antagonism between Pakistan’s military establishment and the militants it had previously supported. "Pakistan is at war with itself. They have created a Frankenstein and the intensity of attacks on these facilities will grow," he said.