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