[SunkenCiv]

Kasturiranga Santhanam, the coordinator of India's 1998 nuclear tests, went public with allegations that India's much heralded Pokhran II test of a thermonuclear bomb 11 years ago was actually a fizzle. "We are totally naked vis-a-vis China, which has an inventory of 200 nuclear bombs, the vast majority of which are giant H-bombs of power equal to three million tons of TNT," Santhanam told reporters in New Delhi this week.

[grey_whiskers]

I fail to see how that makes them naked w.r.t. China: even one average fission nuke, (say 20 kt), detonated over the heart of a Chinese city, would f*ck up their whole day.

Take out the Three Gorges Dam and a couple of other key installations, and China is back at scratching dirt for a living.

(India? Most of their population is at subsistence anyway, and wouldn't particularly notice, until the sacred cows started growing two heads from the fallout.)

Cheers!