[Southack]

Pakistan uses Uranium 238 for their bombs. India uses Plutonium. India has the ability to deliver those nukes via aircraft, ballistic missiles, and ship-launched cruise missiles. Pakistan has the ability to deliver some of their nukes via ballistic missiles, however, it is unlikely that their air force can penetrate Indian defenses.

India's army will survive whatever Pakistan throws at it and will then march across Pakistan, should this thing go hot.

Musharrif knows this fact, and that's why he's started arresting the Islamic militants behind the attack on India's parliament (to try to avoid war). Pakistan also knows that because of India's greater military, that they have to strike first with nukes and then have China bluff India into backing down (if war can't be avoided); otherwise the renegade provice of (West) Pakistan once again becomes part of Greater India.

[HiTech RedNeck]

U238 bomb? That would be some trick unless you mean dirty bomb. The encyclopedias say U235 is the fissile isotope (actually U236 -- which is what happens when U235 catches a neutron).

[clamper1797]

Pakistan uses Uranium 238 for their bombs.

I'm sure it was a typo ... but U235 is the fissionable one. U238 will NOT go boom