Posted on 05/18/2002 3:49:24 PM PDT by maquiladora
PNS Special
Updated on 2002-05-19 00:50:24
SAN FRANCISCO, (PNS) India has started limited war with Pakistan evident by the serious and dangerous developments. Starting with fiery speeches in the Indian parliament and media calling for an all out war with Pakistan. Few hours ago, Pakistan's High Commissioner in India was declared persona-non-grata without citing any reasons. In the backdrop of million man Indian Army in a state of readiness already deployed by India along all of Pakistan's border since Dec 2001.
Israel has (apparently) done the upgrade. Great Britain is not amused.
India also expelled Pakistan's ambassador. I'm starting to think it is only a matter of time before they stop playing nice and go to town on one another...which would probably eventually lead to a nuclear exchange. Thankfully, their nukes aren't nearly as powerful as ours are, but it'll produce a lot of fallout nonetheless.
Tuor
Yeah, except for all of the fallout which would first (and mostly) fall on China. Of course, considering how much the Chinese government cares about their people, that probably wouldn't trouble them *too* much. In fact, it might help a little with their overpopulation problem.
Tuor
Hopefully, not for a long, long, long time.
Better yet - never.
But if it's gonna happen, here's hoping it's limited.
I suppose the world needs a reminder just how nasty those things are.
A lot of what falls on China also crosses the Pacific to Alaska. Alaskans will not be pleased since summer just started and won't end until hunting season.
By turning the heat up gently on the Pakistani pail, the Indians can keep the Pakistani nuclear frog from jumping out.
San Francisco has seceded from the Union and is now part of multiculturalist South Asia.
May I ask when you people were born?
Are you aware that nuclear weapons
as powerful as those in Pakistan's and Indian's arsenal
were tested in New Mexico??
Russia once tested a 50 megaton bomb,
much close to China and Alaska.
They do. But they are not clean bombs. 200 dirty bombs would spread a lot of radioactive fallout. Everybody will get some.
And may I ask how much you know about nuclear physics?
Did you know that radiation from Chernobyl reached the US? Sure, it wasn't much, but there was some.
OTOH, I'm not the one who brought up Alaska: I think Alaska probably wouldn't get too much radiation. The rad count wouldn't be much more than a particularly fierce solar storm, IMO. But, unless and until there is a nuclear exchange, it is impossible to say for sure what the results would be: there has never been more than one nuke set off at a time.
It appears possible that India and Pakistan will oblige us in providing a test bed for this experiment.
Tuor
It kind of brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it? I can hear the wailings from the neo-cons as we speak: they will have to find some other way to hold down wages in the high tech sector. They shouldn't worry: they're bright people, I'm sure they'll find more sources of cheap labor to bring into the country.
H1-Bs: down, but not out!
Tuor
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