[blam]

KABOOM!

[crypt2k]

Use 'em or lose 'em.

[swarthyguy]

During the first war in 1948, two family friends, both muslims from Bombay ended up in the two opposing armies. During lulls in the fighting they would catch up on family news via military radios.

[Pagey]

How many seconds will it be before all 5ft. 2in.of "Mr. Dass" comes out and say it's George Bush' fault,Hmmm?

[Dog Gone]

This looks almost like a fight between family members who share much in common but absolutely hate each other's guts.

That's a lot of nukes to go flying. I hope calmer heads prevail.

[backhoe]

You might want to keep handy, and pass on, these- there is info about potassium iodide tablets, fallout shelters, expedient shelters, etc., buried among the many links:

Nuclear News you *can* use--

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

[Focault's Pendulum]

The three minute warning appears to be eerily accurate.

[SamAdams76]

Three quarters of a million Indian troops are strung out along India's 2000-mile border with Pakistan, from the torrid salt marshes of Gujarat to the frozen peaks of Siachen Glacier in the High Himalayas. They are confronted by a quarter of a million Pakistanis.

How do these forces stack up against the (shudder) elite Iraqi Republican Guard?

[Barnacle]

Indian and Pakistani troops once again exchanged heavy artillery fire across Kashmir's ceasefire line..

Time to rename that line.

[mn_b_one]

Light 'em up! Got Mushroom? (cloud)

Give 'em the happy mushroom.

[satire]

Okay. Let's say 40 + 60 nuclear bombs go off on the other side of the globe, for a total of 100. Can someone here tell us what the implications are, fallout-wise, for the various regions of the U.S.? And for the rest of the world?

[Cleburne]

Baluchis, Punjabis, Rajputs and Dogras

Cool names. I think I heard them in Star Wars.

[mhking]

[tet68]

Many of the troops confronting each other come from the same stock as each other, speak the same language and share the same culture, leaving aside the matter of religion. That is one of the bitter ironies of India's and Pakistan's endless wars.

And so Arjuna, now comes the time of your choosing.
Will you walk with Krishna on the field of battle?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Maybe I'm out to lunch, but I honestly thought the balloon would have gone up by now. This has been building for a couple of weeks, and I anticipated that if it did go down badly it would start with a sudden explosion, not this long, long, long, slow buildup. That's just begging for other world powers to step in and defuse it.

I kind of wonder if something, probably even the U.S. with Britain and Russia (maybe China, who knows?), isn't already at work holding back the explosion.

Maybe I'm nuts, but I would thought the big bad would have already happened, if it was going to.

[Wolfie]

As a software professional, let me just say it would be a crying shame if India were nuked off the map.