Concerns About Pakistan's Nukes

The United States continues to be concerned about the "state of emergency and curtailment of basic freedoms" in Pakistan, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said recently. Another U.S. concern, NPR national security correspondent Jackie Northam reports, is Pakistan's nuclear weapons. (The country is believed to have 50.) Jackie told me U.S. officials are worried what might happen if Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is overthrown or becomes too weak. But their biggest worry isn't that the weapons will fall into the hands of the Islamic militants the United States has been relying on Musharraf to help fight.