[Lazamataz]

Nuclear war between India and Pakistan before this decade is out.

[NautiNurse]

Whose God will win this war?

[JZoback]

I wanted Gandi yesterday on T.V. and it read like today's headlines

Only it was 55 years ago.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

The India-Pakistani Conflict... some background information-

[Steve Eisenberg]

This is one of those totally even-handed articles which doesn't even hint at who started shooting first. You could get the idea that both sides are equally responsible, which is extremely unlikely.

In the fog of war, a lot of things happen which should not. However, for what it is worth, I believe the fire discipline of Indian forces to be far superior to that of its adversary.

[SBeck]

Have these guys, and the world, gone mad? Does everyone who posts here understand that if these nations go nuclear that it will bring in the Chinese that will bring in us that will bring in Iraq and Iran that will bring in Israel that will bring in Russia that will result in an ever escalating nuclear responses?

Can everyone envision the loss of at least 500 million people on all sides, not to mention the very real possibility of nuclear winter?

[SBeck]

Some of us old farts will remember the animated movie Wizards (for those of you who are too young, go rent it). The opening lines of narration began something like this, "The world exploded when five terrorists set off a nuclear bomb."

Sadly, Ralph Bakshi was very prescient if you ask me. (Unfortuanely, there will be no Wizards, Fairies, or Peace as an outome).

[crypt2k]

Use 'em or lose 'em.

[DoughtyOne]

[neutrino]

Let the games begin!

I really don't know why so many people consider this anything other than a minor issue. I reviewed the CIA world fact book for 2001, and noted the following:

US-GDP: $9.963 trillion (2000 est.)
Germany-GDP: $1.936 trillion (2000 est.)
Japan-GDP: $3.15 trillion (2000 est.)
India-GDP: $2.2 trillion (2000 est.)
Pakies-GDP: $282 billion (2000 est.)

So, let's suppose that the Pakies are nuked to the green glass stage, and India gets nuked to a turn, but not to the green glass stage. Under these assumptions, if India loses half of it's GDP (way more than I expect) and the pakies lose all of their GDP, the aggregate loss to the world economy is only about 1.4 trillion USD - out of 19 trillion USD for just FIVE countries. That's only about 7%. To put this into perspective, we lost more than this on paper when the US stock market swooned two years ago.

With more conservative assumptions - say, that the pakies lose half their GDP, and India losses a quarter of theirs, the total cost begins to approach the trivial.

So...don't worry, be happy.