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India and Pakistan... [did] not go nuclear... Why? Many reasons, but perhaps the most important was, paradoxically, the nukes themselves.

I read an article in my paper about this issue. The author's thesis was that multinational companies put the pressure on the Indian government to tone down the war of words. These companies have based a lot of their technical infrastructure in India, and communicated to the Indian government their desire for a stable business environment. The Indian government decided that they like the multinationals more than they hate the Pakistanis.

In reality, I think there are a good many reasons why the Indians and Pakistanis didn't go to war. Nukes, business, politics, and allies all figured in to the equation.

I read an article in my paper about this issue. The author's thesis was that multinational companies put the pressure on the Indian government to tone down the war of words. These companies have based a lot of their technical infrastructure in India, and communicated to the Indian government their desire for a stable business environment. The Indian government decided that they like the multinationals more than they hate the Pakistanis.

This is one reason why the primitive undeveloped nations of the Arab world are particularly dangerous -- the only significant economic tie the rest of the world has to them is oil, and the rest of the world can't choke that off without doing severe damage to itself.

Building more economic ties won't really be possible until the various medieval (e.g. Saudi) and totalitarian (e.g. Iraq and Iran, albeit of different strains) regimes are replaced by something civilized (at which point they won't really be a problem anymore anyway).

Perhaps one of the big reasons the multi-nationals decided to apply pressure to the Indian government was the desire of these companies to avoid losing their infra-structure investment in a mushroom shaped cloud.

Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - yorktown