| The decision to provide another nuclear power | | | | the devices, with Pakistani officials making |
| with PALS technology is not unprecedented. | | | | public suggestions to their U.S. counterparts |
| The United States has transferred the | | | | that cooperation of the U.S. with Pakistan on |
| technology successfully to Britain, France, | | | | nuclear safety issues is an imperative given |
| and even to the Soviet Union in the aftermath | | | | their relative inexperience with safety |
| of the Cuban missile crisis (Man). Pakistan | | | | systems and nuclear weapons in general |
| has made indirect overtures to the United | | | | (Man).In the aftermath of September 11th, the |
| States in what seems to be a bid to obtain | | | | U.S. |