[mhking]

It's getting more difficult to keep footing on this ice-covered hill...

[mhking]

and must be prepared for mutual destruction on both sides

I've got a bad feeling about this...

[backhoe]

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

You also might wish to keep handy:

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

[mhking]

NDTV/StarNews India - Streams live coverage from the StarNews Channel in New Delhi. The first half of most hours is broadcast in Hindi, the second half is in English. You need Windows Media Player to receive the broadcast. This will provide additional insight into what's happening in the region...

[SiliconValleyGuy]

Thanks for posting this.

This is more frightening than anything that has occured in many months, and the blame for a lot of this can be laid right at the door of the Clinton administration. But the media will never remind us of that. This situation bears more than watching. It needs attention, but from who? No one, including the US, has anyone fit to deal with these kinds of threats anymore.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Don't worry, it ain't gonna happen(at least anytime soon). We could have made this statement, in fact any country with nukes promises to retaliate with same if attacked that way.

Now conventional warfare could very likely break out, but escalation to suicide is very unlikely now. Musharif's statement yesterday was basically a backing down, so the direction has been changed.

[Lessismore]

The Iran-Iraq War in the '80s resulted in from 600K to 1070K dead. Iran and Iraq have a combined population of about 90M. Scaling up by a factor of 13 to account for the greater population of Pakistan and India, we get 8M to 14M dead.

Killing 8 to 14 million people by conventional arms is difficult. Therefore, it is almost essential that nuclear arms be employed in order to reach a decisive outcome, either by victory or exhaustion of the sides.

The use of <100 fission bombs of low (<50 MTon) yield will produce casualties of the right order of magnitude. Worldwide nuclear fallout will be comparable to the atmospheric testing of the '50s.

A world government will be established by the great powers shortly thereafter to ensure against a repeat.

[VA Advogado]

This is rather scary. Anyone think about moving their stock investments into something a little more stable? You can bet the market is going to drop like a lead balloon if this place lights up.