At The Nuclear Gates

Not to fret, not to worry. Nuclear Armageddon simply will not happen. Why? Well, just because. We will it not to.

We absolutely and without a second thought refuse to allow it to. Other agencies responsible for keeping the world safe from catastrophic nuclear fission will simply step in to breach the gap - when clearly tainted nuclear administrations in whose hands those armaments have the potential to be surrendered to the avails of terror determination - to save us all.

Pakistan, the world's premier incubator of jihadists, inspiring others to aspire to their heights of success, is thought to be in possession of roughly 80 nuclear warheads. Consider what one or two of those warheads suddenly slipping out of their hands might accomplish. Not to worry; the weapons are guarded. The U.S. has generously given $100-million-worth of technical assistance to Islamabad under its nuclear protection program.

In a spirit of thankfulness and brotherhood, most Pakistani nuclear sites are off limits to curious and expert professional American personnel.

However, it is estimated that between eight to twelve thousand Pakistans are involved in some capacity as part of assembly personnel or security, with the country's nuclear program. So don't even begin to think of the tradition within the country of Islamist infiltration of police, the armed forces - why not the nuclear establishment?

Remember, it wasn't all that long ago that Pakistan's numero uno nuclear scientist sold nuclear know-how - to North Korea, to Libya, to Iran, to Syria. Oops. All those responsible world-member-states enjoying nuclear status. Makes one feel warm and secure, doesn't it? Add that to the conclusions published by the West Point military academy documenting a number of very particular incidents.

A suicide bomber striking Pakistan's nuclear airbase at Kamra; a group of suicide bombers blowing up the gates at a cantonment in Punjab where one of the country's nuclear warhead assembly plants is located; 63 left dead there. Another attack at Kamra nuclear base. An army headquarters attack in Rawalpindi where 10 gunmen in army uniforms held the base for 22 hours. Another attack in Islamabad at the naval command centre.

All extremely secure, well-guarded, high-value sites. Last year alone over three thousand Pakistani citizens were killed in terror attacks. Somehow it is the Americans the citizens of Pakistan revile and detest, not the Islamists among them. And the country's military leaders have no intention of sharing control of the country's nuclear program with any foreign interests, particularly the U.S.

Although they appear incapable of protecting and defending their own critical police and armed forces and governmental institutions from attack, they are more than confident that safety measures they have taken are more than adequate to meet the challenge of al-Qaeda determination to avail themselves of nuclear devices that go pouffe! you're dead.

Kind of comforting that the U.S. army is in the process of training a crack unit to seal off and neutralize Pakistan's nuclear weapons. In the event, the dimmest of possibilities, that evil lurks where it should not, and terrorists somehow get control of the means to make the world even more miserable than it already is.

Until you remember how reliably astute and capable U.S. secret service agencies [and the U.S. army in protecting its own from home-bred assailants] have become....