Reports noted that Pakistan is continuing to expand its nuclear bomb-making facilities despite growing international concern that advancing Islamist extremists could overrun one or more of its atomic weapons plants or seize sufficient radioactive material to make a dirty bomb1.

President Obama meanwhile on April 29 stated that Washington "can make sure that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is secure," even as he expressed grave concern over the deteriorating situation in the militancy-stricken country.
He expressed optimism about US control over Pakistan's nuclear weapons, perhaps through military-to-military cooperation2.

• 1. Simon Tisdall, US can make sure Pak nukes are secure: Obama,” May 3, 2009, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/03/pakistan-nuclear-security
• 2. Chidanand Rajghatta, “US can make sure Pak nukes are secure: Obama,” Times of India, April 30, 2009