British Military Preparing for Nuclear War Aftermath-India Situation 'Desperately Serious'

U.K. Times ^ | May 24, 2002 | Michael Evans and Phillip Webster

[codebreaker]

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[codebreaker]

The Lodnon Times has changed the format recently in the past few weeks, anyone else have problems linking?

[Woodman]

I get a 404 from the link.

[ejdrapes]

The Lodnon Times has changed the format recently in the past few weeks, anyone else have problems linking? The LT just introduced an annual fee for those outside of the UK. Annual fee is like $50. So if you're not a Brit and haven't bought a subscription, you can't view their online articles.

[George from New England]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-305877,00.html

[Mike Fieschko]

I get the story loaded with this url.

[Woodman]

Try this one

[Shermy]

this link works

[Brian Mosely]

British military prepare for nuclear war aftermath

By Michael Evans and Philip Webster

BRITISH military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a “real possibility”. As Pakistan announced plans for the possible redeployment of thousands of troops engaged in the war against al-Qaeda terrorists to the Indian border, and Tony Blair told the Cabinet the situation was now “desperately serious”, British intelligence sources voiced fears that the two countries were locked on a path to the world’s first nuclear exchange.

Indeed, the Government is so alarmed by one of the most pessimistic intelligence assessments since the Cuban missile crisis that the military has been ordered to start planning for the possible emergency evacuation of Britons from India and Pakistan.

Military sources confirmed that options were being studied and all the consequences of a nuclear war were being examined. In the past 24 hours Mr Blair has telephoned President Bush and President Putin of Russia, urging them to exert maximum pressure on both sides to pull back from the abyss and resume dialogue.

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, twice called Pakistan’s President Musharraf to urge restraint, but the build-up continued unabated. Pakistan announced that it may withdraw several thousand troops on peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and East Timor, and half its troops from fighting the war on terrorism on the Afghan border. India is strengthening its strategic air and ground defences along its border with Pakistan.

The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down.

The sources said that since both countries were new nuclear weapons powers, they did not have the same attitude to deterrence as the five older members of the nuclear club and may resort to using their weapons of mass destruction; that applied particularly to Pakistan if it faced defeat from an overwhelming Indian conventional attack

[Woodman]

British military prepare for nuclear war aftermath
By Michael Evans and Philip Webster

BRITISH military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a “real possibility”.

As Pakistan announced plans for the possible redeployment of thousands of troops engaged in the war against al-Qaeda terrorists to the Indian border, and Tony Blair told the Cabinet the situation was now “desperately serious”, British intelligence sources voiced fears that the two countries were locked on a path to the world’s first nuclear exchange.

Indeed, the Government is so alarmed by one of the most pessimistic intelligence assessments since the Cuban missile crisis that the military has been ordered to start planning for the possible emergency evacuation of Britons from India and Pakistan.

Military sources confirmed that options were being studied and all the consequences of a nuclear war were being examined. In the past 24 hours Mr Blair has telephoned President Bush and President Putin of Russia, urging them to exert maximum pressure on both sides to pull back from the abyss and resume dialogue.

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, twice called Pakistan’s President Musharraf to urge restraint, but the build-up continued unabated. Pakistan announced that it may withdraw several thousand troops on peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and East Timor, and half its troops from fighting the war on terrorism on the Afghan border. India is strengthening its strategic air and ground defences along its border with Pakistan.

The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down.

The sources said that since both countries were new nuclear weapons powers, they did not have the same attitude to deterrence as the five older members of the nuclear club and may resort to using their weapons of mass destruction; that applied particularly to Pakistan if it faced defeat from an overwhelming Indian conventional attack.

[TomGuy]

May 24, 2002

British military prepare for nuclear war aftermath

By Michael Evans and Philip Webster

BRITISH military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a “real possibility”. As Pakistan announced plans for the possible redeployment of thousands of troops engaged in the war against al-Qaeda terrorists to the Indian border, and Tony Blair told the Cabinet the situation was now “desperately serious”, British intelligence sources voiced fears that the two countries were locked on a path to the world’s first nuclear exchange.

Indeed, the Government is so alarmed by one of the most pessimistic intelligence assessments since the Cuban missile crisis that the military has been ordered to start planning for the possible emergency evacuation of Britons from India and Pakistan.

Military sources confirmed that options were being studied and all the consequences of a nuclear war were being examined. In the past 24 hours Mr Blair has telephoned President Bush and President Putin of Russia, urging them to exert maximum pressure on both sides to pull back from the abyss and resume dialogue.

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, twice called Pakistan’s President Musharraf to urge restraint, but the build-up continued unabated. Pakistan announced that it may withdraw several thousand troops on peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and East Timor, and half its troops from fighting the war on terrorism on the Afghan border. India is strengthening its strategic air and ground defences along its border with Pakistan.

The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down.

The sources said that since both countries were new nuclear weapons powers, they did not have the same attitude to deterrence as the five older members of the nuclear club and may resort to using their weapons of mass destruction; that applied particularly to Pakistan if it faced defeat from an overwhelming Indian conventional attack.

[Lurker]

British military prepare for nuclear war aftermath
By Michael Evans and Philip Webster

BRITISH military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a “real possibility”.

As Pakistan announced plans for the possible redeployment of thousands of troops engaged in the war against al-Qaeda terrorists to the Indian border, and Tony Blair told the Cabinet the situation was now “desperately serious”, British intelligence sources voiced fears that the two countries were locked on a path to the world’s first nuclear exchange.

Indeed, the Government is so alarmed by one of the most pessimistic intelligence assessments since the Cuban missile crisis that the military has been ordered to start planning for the possible emergency evacuation of Britons from India and Pakistan. Military sources confirmed that options were being studied and all the consequences of a nuclear war were being examined. In the past 24 hours Mr Blair has telephoned President Bush and President Putin of Russia, urging them to exert maximum pressure on both sides to pull back from the abyss and resume dialogue.

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, twice called Pakistan’s President Musharraf to urge restraint, but the build-up continued unabated. Pakistan announced that it may withdraw several thousand troops on peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and East Timor, and half its troops from fighting the war on terrorism on the Afghan border. India is strengthening its strategic air and ground defences along its border with Pakistan.

The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down.

The sources said that since both countries were new nuclear weapons powers, they did not have the same attitude to deterrence as the five older members of the nuclear club and may resort to using their weapons of mass destruction; that applied particularly to Pakistan if it faced defeat from an overwhelming Indian conventional attack.

[Woodman]

Damn, we all had the same idea....

[TomGuy]

At least I bolded and linked mine! [LOL]

[B-Chan]

Pucker Factor 8. This isn't funny anymore.

[Woodman]

The worst part is I'm reasonabley sure that this will happen, if not now, sometime in the near future. The bright side of it all is the Pak's will most likely use all they have and it will remove that threat from the world court.

[Lessismore]

The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down.

Another case of the train schedules not providing for the halting of mobilization. Drawn up by the Tzarist high command, no doubt.

[arthurus]

I clicked on the link and got the ohsosorry message. I then went up to the address line and scraped off the excess from the basic address and thus went to the main page where I easily saw and clicked on the desired article. I read it and returned to FR to find that everybody posted it already in comments.

[arthurus]

make the use of atomics legit in many minds, and possibly common place<P All that radiation is sure to increase Global Warming.