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