Word: pakistani
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...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...
...story of how India revived the nuclear nightmare begins in December 1995. The government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao is secretly readying an underground nuclear test when U.S. spy satellites orbiting over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...that New Delhi will do nothing rash, since it is still engaged in that policy review. "We were sucked in," says a U.S. diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations...
...kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office to tell him about the blasts. His jaw drops. "Why?" is all he can manage...
...White House years Carter would astonish aides by proofreading their memos to him. Brinkley should have set Carter to work on the book manuscript, asking him to comb out the unaccountable sloppiness ("criteria" for "criterion," "bravado" for "bravura" and many other errors, including the "Pakistani billionaire" on page 224 who turns into a "Palestinian billionaire" on page 225) and moments of inadvisable rhetorical wing-flapping, as when Carter "embraced leprosy eradication...