David Albright details the threats to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from the current instability in South Asia and offers several options the U.S. could take to mitigate the danger.

David Albright argues that Pakistan's nuclear program is a security threat because the program has historically relied on "the program has relied on illicit procurement and deliberate deception." He warns that "many people in the Pakistani nuclear weapons program and the military could well be sympathetic to radical Islamist or anti-American causes."