Comments on: South Asia’s Nuclear War Risk http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/ Know The Diplomat, Know Asia Thu, 24 May 2012 01:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Dr.k.r.sheikh http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-7865 Dr.k.r.sheikh Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:58:29 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-7865 if nations wants to show respect to each other,their is no need of weapons.but exceptionally west needs to show respect region not a single country of their choice. if nations wants to show respect to each other,their is no need of weapons.but exceptionally west needs to show respect region not a single country of their choice.

]]> By: Bastich http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-5356 Bastich Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:30:18 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-5356 Are you an infant? No one, even the lowliest of peasant will ever consider a nuclear war. Even the ground realities in India/Pakistan/China are testament to this. A Nuclear war implies the end to all the participants (and the neighbours as well). Even if India and Pakistan go to war- there's no chance any country will even consider using Nukes - for not only they will lose any international support even in defeat - they'll have everything to lose - not just their national pride!! Can we stop these "India Pak Nuclear Holocaust" BS and stick to topics that are pragmatic? Are you an infant? No one, even the lowliest of peasant will ever consider a nuclear war. Even the ground realities in India/Pakistan/China are testament to this. A Nuclear war implies the end to all the participants (and the neighbours as well).

Even if India and Pakistan go to war- there’s no chance any country will even consider using Nukes – for not only they will lose any international support even in defeat – they’ll have everything to lose – not just their national pride!!

Can we stop these “India Pak Nuclear Holocaust” BS and stick to topics that are pragmatic?

]]> By: T Rama Bhat http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-4028 T Rama Bhat Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:08:18 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-4028 "Yet even setting aside the question of nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands, nuclear competition between India and Pakistan is especially dangerous." :- Pakistan is able to fund this program because of the financial aid that they are able to extract from USA and other western countries by playing on their strategic fears and stringing them along. Money is after all a fungible commodity. Even though aid is not given for this purpose specifically, they are able to avoid spending their own capital for relevant needs and divert it. In fact, these powers waive off the debt due to them from Pakistan regularly. Pakistan has never felt the pinch of the expenditure towards their nuclear armament development as they are sure loans made to them will be waived off to them in future also! It is China that is the nuclear arms proliferator (sitting securely in the club of "accepted" nuclear weapons states) that has designed the Pakistan nuclear bomb and tested it, unofficially, prior to 1998. They have given them the technology for nuclear-tipped missiles also and are working on giving them technology for upgrading these missiles. "Pakistani leaders in particular have concluded that their nuclear arsenal has deterred India from again using its conventional forces to attack Pakistani territory. As a result, Pakistan’s implicit nuclear doctrine presumes the possible first use of nuclear weapons." :- This is an argument raised by western powers to instill fear in our media, intellectuals , and political leaders. It is a pity that many Indians lap up this theory hook line and sinker. Even USA has restrained itself from the nuclear first-strike option at the height of cold war. Using this first strike option is not a joke. Every world leader knows that there will be a retaliatory strike from the opposite nuclear power which will destroy the "first-strike" power also. No nation wants to commit suicide enmasse .After all, wars are fought to gain something and not to lose the lives of a majority of one's own population. That is why Pakistan is desperately clutching to the illusion of "strategic-depth" in Afghanistan against the possibility (however remote) of a conventional military offensive by India. If we go by their rhetoric that their threshold is very low, and at the first possible opportunity they will use the nuclear first strike option, then the necessity of seeking the "illusion of strategic-depth" will not arise. The Punjabi military leaders of Pakistan will dare not risk enmasse suicide. “Yet even setting aside the question of nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands, nuclear competition between India and Pakistan is especially dangerous.” :- Pakistan is able to fund this program because of the financial aid that they are able to extract from USA and other western countries by playing on their strategic fears and stringing them along. Money is after all a fungible commodity. Even though aid is not given for this purpose specifically, they are able to avoid spending their own capital for relevant needs and divert it. In fact, these powers waive off the debt due to them from Pakistan regularly. Pakistan has never felt the pinch of the expenditure towards their nuclear armament development as they are sure loans made to them will be waived off to them in future also!
It is China that is the nuclear arms proliferator (sitting securely in the club of “accepted” nuclear weapons states) that has designed the Pakistan nuclear bomb and tested it, unofficially, prior to 1998. They have given them the technology for nuclear-tipped missiles also and are working on giving them technology for upgrading these missiles.
“Pakistani leaders in particular have concluded that their nuclear arsenal has deterred India from again using its conventional forces to attack Pakistani territory. As a result, Pakistan’s implicit nuclear doctrine presumes the possible first use of nuclear weapons.” :- This is an argument raised by western powers to instill fear in our media, intellectuals , and political leaders. It is a pity that many Indians lap up this theory hook line and sinker.
Even USA has restrained itself from the nuclear first-strike option at the height of cold war. Using this first strike option is not a joke. Every world leader knows that there will be a retaliatory strike from the opposite nuclear power which will destroy the “first-strike” power also. No nation wants to commit suicide enmasse .After all, wars are fought to gain something and not to lose the lives of a majority of one’s own population. That is why Pakistan is desperately clutching to the illusion of “strategic-depth” in Afghanistan against the possibility (however remote) of a conventional military offensive by India.
If we go by their rhetoric that their threshold is very low, and at the first possible opportunity they will use the nuclear first strike option, then the necessity of seeking the “illusion of strategic-depth” will not arise. The Punjabi military leaders of Pakistan will dare not risk enmasse suicide.

]]> By: Aj http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-3936 Aj Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:49:53 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-3936 @Kayani What rubbish. The highest possibility of nukes falling into the wrong hands is in Pakistan right now. What universe are you living in mate? @Kayani
What rubbish. The highest possibility of nukes falling into the wrong hands is in Pakistan right now. What universe are you living in mate?

]]> By: Kayani http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-3927 Kayani Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:35:25 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-3927 There were no concerns shown when India went into deal with the USA despite unsecure nuclear facilities in India which are posing highest possible risk in the region. There were no concerns shown when India went into deal with the USA despite unsecure nuclear facilities in India which are posing highest possible risk in the region.

]]> By: ronnie http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/12/south-asia%e2%80%99s-nuclear-war-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 ronnie Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:08:50 +0000 http://the-diplomat.com/?p=5033#comment-3903 Exception,exception,exception.Here is one more exception.The bullying and declining ex hyper power is reaping what it sowed by making an exception. Exception,exception,exception.Here is one more exception.The bullying and declining ex hyper power is reaping what it sowed by making an exception.

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