For India and Pakistan, however, the experience would be beyond imagination. Take the lowest estimates of deliverable Indian and Pakistani nuclear warheads - say 100 for India, and 50 for Pakistan. Assume that one-third are destroyed before launch or fail to work. Drop most of the rest on cities, or on army bases and airfields that are near cities. What do you get?
Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Multan and Karachi: gone. Delhi, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Jaipur and maybe Bombay: gone. Twenty or thirty or fifty million people killed outright or condemned to a lingering death - as if somebody suddenly exterminated Spain or South Korea. Pakistan broken into squabbling successor states, and perhaps India split between the economically dynamic south and the less prosperous, horribly injured northern ‘Hindi belt’ as well.
Of course, nothing so bad has happened since the last nuclear war, 57 years ago. Maybe it won’t happen now. Maybe Vajpayee and Musharraf are both just bluffing. We shall see - and probably by autumn.- Copyright http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/26/op.htm#3
The indians at this forum have not any answer to the article posted here which reveales the weakness of the indian forces. Instead they talk about 71 because they dont have any other option left.
My advise is that Pakistan should fill all its airplanes with at least 5 billion “choorian” and drop them on india so that it could be proven to the rest af the world that there is no man living there
Kuddos, where did you get that? Even though, if Pakistan have some techonology sharing with these countries, it would be far enough good than Russian fake weapons
Oh yeah, remeber what Musharraf said to U.S Congress while visiting U.S.A that India might conduct Missles test. Vajpayee mocked Musharraf’s credibility. Days after, India conducted missles tests of Brahmos. Now, you be the judge and tell me who’s mature?
Kuddos, Pakistan can make and upgrade its own missles. It is India, who has really look after Russian weapons
Talwar, does it really concern whether Pakistan makes the missiles or not. The thing is that we have got them and they would be enough to blow the asses of millions of Indians.
The Americans are getting their citizens out of India, the British have imposed an arms embargo on India, the Chinese and Japanese are chastising India for its war mongering. And to top it all of India’s buddy Russia has offered to mediate between both countries, something the Indians are blue in the face about. My what an Indian ‘vijay’
Talwaar, that may be death warrant for Pakistan, but even if the Indians attack pakistan back, they would suffer more, as even the winds from Pakistan blow into India.
On May 24, researchers at Princeton University, where Einstein once worked, came out with statistics on the deaths and injuries that would ensue were India and Pakistan to unleash their nuclear weapons upon each other. The scenario visualized was that were India to bomb Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi- Islamabad, and Faisalabad, and in turn Pakistan were to bomb Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai, the estimated number of deaths in India would be 1.7 million with 900,000 wounded, and in Pakistan 1.2 million deaths and 600,000 injured.
that many people died in iraq-iran-gulf war
that is proportionaltely much higher.
if iraq can survive india with 1 billion can survive.
The Americans are asking their citizens to leave India - not good for for foreign inevstment, especially after the Bombay stock excahnge has been plummeting.
Particularly bruising must be the British decision to slap an arms embargo on India, at this time when India needs all the military hardware it can get.
Big Asian superpowers like China and Japan are calling upon India to act responsibly, and stop threatening war.
Most shocking for the Indian psyche must be the decision of India’s best buddy, Russians to offer mediation between both countries, just days after India said it would not talk to Pakistan at all.
Thats the attention that war mongering gets you know…
mallik do the mathamatics that is iraq's population vs # of killed in war over iran and kuwaite. the cost of the 500 billion.
extraplate that to pakistan -indian situation.
well guys i dont know.. But british analysts say that our country tested the misile to satisfy the domestic audience.. And the before the test our president sent the Indian PM saying that it was not intended to intensify the situation but to satisfy the local pressure...