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2003-05-05 India-Pakistan

Pakistan: Weâll Destroy Nukes if India Does

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-05 08:58 am|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is indeed bullshit. Pakland had nukes long before India did. Although India did carry out nuclear tests in the early 1970s they never actually kept a supply of nukes. After Pakistan started supporting the insurgency in the early 1990s, India threatened to retaliate and there was a 'nuclear threat' from Pakistan. This is why India decided to carry out the tests in 1998. There is a lot of disinformation that pakistan carried out their nuclear tests in resonse to India's when if fact its the other way round.

Besides this, India's main perceived nuclear threat is China and not Pakland. India won't give up its nukes unless there is a complete global disarmament, in other words it will never happen.

Posted by rg117 2003-05-05 09:55:59|| 2003-05-05 09:55:59|| Front Page Top

#2 BS or not, encourage this. ANYWAY we can get an Islamic nation to destroy WMD is good. I'm not comfortable with India's nuclear status anyway. Their longstanding animosity toward Pak is just ripe for an ultranationalist Indian gov't to decide just how badly India wants Kashmir. That inevitible war needs to stay conventional.
Our counterbalance to China, in that region, is Taiwan (read us).

Posted by Scott 2003-05-05 15:04:05|| 2003-05-05 15:04:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually India for quite awhile had always been a regional counterweight to China's ambitions. If India were to give up its nukes, China would still have theirs and you can be guaranteed a lot more of those are aimed at them than at us in the U.S. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I regard anyone in that region as relatively responsible folks in regards to having nuclear capability. Sorry guys but in my view I'd rather India, Pakistan AND China have ZERO nukes (and just as importantly North Korea but thats another category)

Posted by Valentine 2003-05-06 00:40:58|| 2003-05-06 00:40:58|| Front Page Top

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