Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pakistans-political-unrest-prompts-questions-about-nuclear-arsenal Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Pakistan remains under emergency rule despite President Pervez Musharraf's pledge to hold parliamentary elections in January. A nuclear security analyst and a Pakistani physicist assess how the political turmoil will affect the security of Pakistan's nuclear program. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Pakistan's political turmoil is about more than internal conflict. It could also be about the future and security of its nuclear arsenal, which has been compromised before.Here to talk about Pakistan's nuclear issues are Matthew Bunn, who served in the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Clinton administration. He's now a senior research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.And Zia Mian, he's a physicist and directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at Princeton University. A Pakistani citizen, he has written extensively about nuclear issues.Welcome to you both.Zia Mian, give us an idea about the extent to which, to the degree that we know, of Pakistan's nuclear program.ZIA MIAN, Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, Princeton University: Well, there is naturally a lot of secrecy about Pakistan's nuclear program, like there is about the nuclear programs of most other countries.But what we do know is that Pakistan has a large number of nuclear facilities that it's developed over the last 30 years, and probably enough nuclear material for several dozen nuclear weapons.But most of us believe that Pakistan doesn't have those weapons on missiles or on airplanes ready to use, unlike, for example, the nuclear weapons of the United States, which are ready to use in half an hour. Pakistan keeps its weapons disassembled as a way of making sure that they are secure and safe and also because they're afraid that they may be attacked at some stage.