[r9etb]

"The consequence will be worldwide horror that will result in less reliance on nuclear weapons," suggested former National Security Council senior director Jane Wales, president of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco.

Bullshit. (This is not profanity -- it's an accurate description.)

Terrorists are not interested in control. They are interested in horror.

Pakistan is not interested in control. Pakistan is interested in not getting conquered by India.

India is not interested in control. India is interested in responding to Pakistan, and in not getting conquered by China.

China wants to threaten its neighbors, and to use its nuclear arsenal as a backstop to prevent us or Russia from intervening.

And on and on and on.....

These people think everybody will play nice because the alternative is so bad. Everybody thought the same thing after the First World War, too.

[MissAmericanPie]

Do you mean to tell me you would argue with the scholarly views of this enlightened genius pool? ;o)

[Tall_Texan]

While an India-Pakistan conflict may pre-empt it, I think I can rather safely guess where the first nuclear strike will be detonated. Israel.

Arabs have oil. Others need it. The Arabs can buy what they want including nukes from some Russian rogues. These get passed along to the Al Qaeda folks or somebody without direct ties to Arab leaders, smuggled into Israel on the back of a teenager and BLAMMO. You know they'd do it...