  We study the dynamics of localized and fully backreacting anti-D3 branes at
the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler geometry. We use a non-supersymmetric version
of the Polchinski-Strassler analysis to compute the potential for anti-D3
branes to polarize into all kinds of five-brane shells in all possible
directions. We find that generically there is a direction along which the
brane-brane interaction is repulsive, which implies that anti-D3 branes are
tachyonic. Hence, even though anti-D3 branes can polarize into five-branes, the
solution will most likely be unstable. This indicates that anti-D3 brane uplift
may not result in stable de Sitter vacua.
