Pakistani Nuclear Security Worries U.S. Officials

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Pakistani Nuclear Security Worries U.S. Officials

Preventing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from falling into extremist hands is a more important security priority for the United States than stabilizing Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a Bush administration report delivered to the team preparing for Barack Obama's presidency, the New York Times reported yesterday.

"Only one of those countries has a hundred nuclear weapons," the report's lead author said. Concerns persist over Islamabad's ability to protect the arsenal, according to the Times.

U.S. intelligence officials have briefed Obama on the possibility that some Pakistani scientists with radical Islamic sympathies have sought to join the ranks of the nation's nuclear elite.

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