The US has, at several instances, expressed concern over Pakistan’s missile ranges and the number of nuclear warheads that the US experts believe Pakistan to be possessing. The desire to cap and limit Pakistan’s strategic capability serves the interests of its regional allies. There is a tendency to take the negative side of every Pakistani policymaker’s statement on nuclear issues at face value. The US should refrain from self-imposing threats to its security only for the sake of portraying Pakistan’s genuine deterrent capability as irrational. With this needless alarmism regarding Pakistan’s strategic capability, the outgoing US administration has left a bitter after-taste for the incumbent government to deal with.