Alex Christoforou
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Although India and Pakistan have less then 200 nuclear warheads each, India has thermonuclear weapons (Hydrogen bombs), whereas Pakistan has lower-yield fission-only nuclear weapons (Atomic nombs).
If a hot war turns nuclear between India and Pakistan, the Pakis will be annihilated, simply because Pakistan has less than 130 cities with a population above 100K, whereas India has over 300 cities with a population above 100,000+, and India also has City killing Hydrogen bombs, unlike Pakistan.
The number of things that Alexander will not mention would fill a book. The recitation of Pakistan’s problems is no recipe for fomenting a vicious and escalatory terrorist attack on India. The first question that must be asked is Hunter S Thompson’s famous one: CUI BONO? To whom, the good? And in this situation it’s clear, NEITHER nation benefits from this event. Modi’s Hindutva fascist nationalism notwithstanding, and Pakistan’s corrupt generals’ ambitions notwithstanding, a general war which could go nuclear is a catastrophe for all parties. The ONLY beneficiares are external actors. Consider: the killer American spy Raymond Davis was… Read more »