US nuclear Control & Command setup upsets world
By Makhdoom Babar
Editor-in-Chief

According to international media reports, quoting US military officials, a US Air Force’s B-52 Bomber Jet, that flew from Minot Air Base in North Dakota for Barlsdate Air Force Base in Louisiana, carried six Cruise Missiles, loaded with nuclear warheads. According to experts, these six nuclear missiles were capable enough to destroy at least half of the world. The US military officials are however terming it is a “mistake”, while no official reaction to this “mistake has come up either from the Pentagon or the White House. It remains a fact here that the US President is officially identified as the chief custodian of the US Nuclear arsenal and it is said that the US nuke control and command lies under the thumb of the US President. But in this case, poor US president was totally unaware of the fact that one of his Air Force pilots flew the length of United States in a B-52 jet bomber, armed with as many as 6 nuclear cruise missiles and that too by “mistake”. This highly alarming state of affairs with regard to the US nuclear command and control set up has heavily upset the world and has raised drastic concerns regarding the world peace. The gravity of the incident has really raised an acute global concern and has left everyone to ponder as to how much responsible nuclear State the US should be regarded as.
On the other hand, the US government and “independent” US media has constantly been portraying Pakistan as unreliable nuclear State. The US government and American media have always been expressing the fear that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons can fall into the hands of extremists or terrorists. Just a few months back, US official including Toby Dalton, senior Policy Advisor from national Nuclear Security Administration of the US and Peter R. Lavoy, Director at Centre for Contemporary Conflicts at Naval Post Graduate School of the United States, while addressing a serious gathering at Islamabad’s National Defence University, passed absolutely harsh and highly objectionable comments regarding Pakistan’s nuclear programme and expressed their acute concern that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons can fall into the hands of religious extremists or terrorists. To defend their stance, they presented a comparison from the US nuclear control and command set up and stressed that only such setups guarantee a safe and responsible nuclear State.
The Daily Mail argues that under the current circumstance, what parameters would the US like to introduce for being a responsible Nuclear State. The Daily Mail argues that in light of the recent “Mistake” by the US Air Force, how can world feel of being safe and secured. The Daily Mail also questions that while pointing finger towards Pakistan, how could the US government and media forget that America’s home bred extremists, who in the past targeted the Federal buildings in Oklahoma and Wako, Texas are also capable of exploiting such “Mistakes” and what can prevent them from reaching the US nuke weapons.
The Daily Mail believes that the US needs to set it home in order first and then should describe the definition of being a responsible nuclear State. Here The Daily Mail would also like to mention that it must be the ‘mutual level or irresponsibility’ between Washington and India that the US government has signed a nuclear deal with India where the level of ‘responsibility’ can be gauged through the incidents like the one in which a whole truck, carrying tons of nuclear material went missing the last year and is so far untraced and the Indian government is not bothered about it.