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Give kashmir or take kashmir. Make up your mind as enemy is getting bold

how many nukes they have ? 100 ? 150 ?

we have 6,000+ cities and 6,00,000+ villages ;)
Do you know how much damage one nuke does... Today's 1 nuke wipes more than one city for starters...

Pakistan has nothing to give to India in Kashmir..
How about peace and good relationship with you...No war,economic etc prosperity. Is it not worth it?ofcourse you will say no...
 
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Do you know how much damage one nuke does... Today's 1 nuke wipes more than one city for starters...


How about peace and good relationship with you...No war,economic etc prosperity. Is it not worth it?ofcourse you will say no...
Pakistan mostly have low grade nukes which have yield og 18kt to 22kt

Which has less radius of effect

India on the other hand thermonuclear Weapons yeiding upto 80 kt -100Kt minumum hand has large radius of effect
 
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Pakistan mostly have low grade nukes which have yield og 18kt to 22kt

Which has less radius of effect

India on the other hand thermonuclear Weapons yeiding upto 80 kt -100Kt minumum hand has large radius of effect
How lethal are Pakistan's nuclear weapons? How much area would be immediately destroyed in a single attack?
By destroy an area, I mean the radius within which buildings fall, things burn and people die immediately. I don't mean the after effects of nuclear radiation, which I understand would affect a larger area. The objective of this question is chalk out a rough evacuation plan if some day there is a strong chance of a nuclear attack.


The short answer, of course, is very lethal, like all nuclear weapons. Read on for more details.

So according to the Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction article on Wikipedia, Pakistan possesses four delivery mechanisms for a nuclear attack in the area:

  • Medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM). Range, 2500 km. Estimated yield 300–500 kt (kilotons of TNT equivalent).
  • Nuclear-tipped Babur cruise missiles. Range, 700 km. Yield - ?
  • Nuclear bombs carried by fighter-bombers. Estimated yield up to 150 kt.
  • Cruise missiles carried by fighter-bombers. Warhead estimated yield 20–25 kt.

The fighter-bombers likely drop 150 kt bombs or launch cruise missiles with 20–25 kt warheads. The most powerful warheads in Pakistan's arsenal are estimated to have a yield 300–500 kt, delivered by the Ghauri-I MRBM:

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Ghauri medium-range ballistic missiles.

Note that this would be a very similar yield to the U.S.'s most advanced warhead, the 475 kt W88. (Although the Pakistani one is probably much heavier due to the less advanced technology, and thus you can't carry as many of them on a missile.)

As we start discussing the effects, keep in mind the pictures of the destruction in Hiroshima (the Little Boy bomb had a yield of 13 kt), and remember that a 500 kt weapon is nearly 40 times more powerful.

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Effects of a 13 kt air burst.

They are also apparently working on a sea-launched cruise missile (a naval variant of the Babur) and a smaller nuclear warhead that can be put on Pakistan's Chinese-made C-802 and C-803 anti-ship missiles, but these delivery mechanisms are not operational yet.

Taking the upper end of the estimated range of Pakistani warheads (500 kilotons) is convenient because the U.S. government published a bunch of graphs on the effects of a 500 kt blast in the report Nuclear Attack Environment Handbook (FEMA, August 1990). The graphics below are taken from here, which reproduces the FEMA book.

Here is an overview of the effects of a 500 kt surface burst:

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There is heavy damage (5 psi overpressure) out to a radius of about 2.2 miles.

If they are smarter about it and detonate it 1.1 miles in the air (see Geoff Olynyk's answer to Bombs: Why doesn't the blast from a nuke take place on the ground?), the damage radius is larger:

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There is now heavy damage out to a radius of 3.2 miles. The government also helpfully calculated the winds produced by a 500 kt air burst:

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and a nice graph showing all the other fun effects (eardrums burst! serious glass wounds!) from a 500 kt air burst:

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Finally, here are the radii at which you get flash burns from the light (thermal radiation) from a 500 kt air burst, depending on how clear of a day it is:

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Okay, that's enough detail. To actually answer your question, the overpressure at which buildings fall and people die immediately is about 20 psi, but it's more likely than not that you'll die at the 5 psi level also, due to flying debris, you getting thrown about, fire, glass, etc. Even if you survive, your eardrums will explode and you'll probably die within a few hours anyway due to the burns.

So for a 500 kt weapon (upper estimate of Pakistani capability), with an air burst, that's a radius of 0.6 miles (1.0 km) for the 20 psi overpressure, or 3.2 miles (5.1 km) for the 5 psi overpressure. Note that's radius from the hypocenter (the point on the ground below where the warhead detonates).

But if you want a better chance of survival, just looking at the graphs above (I obviously have no personal experience with this), you'll want to be more like 6–7 miles (9–11 km) away from the hypocenter.

There is lots more discussion of the effects of a 500 kt airburst at this company trying to sell you a fallout shelter's website:

  • Impact lethality out to just over 4 miles.
  • Impact skull fracture and serious glass wounds out to 5 miles.
  • Impact injuries out to over 6 miles, with 50% probability of 3rd degree burns, if in clear line-of-sight at the instant of initial flash.
  • Skin lacerations from glass fragments out to almost 9 miles, with 50% probability of 1st degree burns, if in clear line-of-sight at instant of initial flash.

They say the "lethal radius" is 2.2 miles, which corresponds to the 10 psi overpressure curve.

You can put these radii on your city using the widget here.
Ground Zero | Carloslabs (Choose the Joe-4 400 kt weapon.)

Finally, I note that for the smaller Pakistani weapons (say, the 20 kt nuclear-tipped airplane-launched cruise missile), the 5- and 20-psi overpressure radii will obviously be smaller; about 35% as large in radius. You can get a sense of the destruction from such a weapon by looking at pictures of Nagasaki (the Fat Man had a yield of 21 kt).









Indian media’s ‘lack’ of Kashmir and Pakistan’s geographical understanding

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In the words of one very well-meaning Kashmiri journalist, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led New Delhi government and largely jingoist Indian electronic media have made anti-India resistance in restive Jammu and Kashmir much easier than before.

What he meant was that now one only needs to wave a Pakistani flag for a brief moment in any part of Jammu and Kashmir to irritate the Indian government and irk its electronic media. It has become so easy to get them worked up.

And once you infuriate them, the right-wing politicians issue strong-worded statements against “pro-Pakistan elements” within Kashmir and the electronic media follows suit by conducting fiery prime-time television debates on the controversy.

This way, Kashmir gets the much-needed media attention it aspires for.

Without any major investment, almost for free.

Coming to the larger issue, the Indian state has strongly objected to holding of elections in disputed Gilgit-Baltistan, because India lays claim over the whole of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir which existed at the time of India-Pakistan partition in 1947.

The official Indian claim is that a part of Kashmir, which is under Pakistan’s administration or ‘occupation’, whatever you may call it, belongs to India. Pakistan, on its part, conveniently calls the part under its administration as ‘Azad Kashmir’ while India refers to the part of Kashmir, under its supervision, as ‘integral part’.

India also believes, officially, that conducting elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, which forms a part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK), is an attempt to “camouflage the forcible and illegal occupation” of the region.

Official spokesperson of Ministry of India’s External Affairs, Vikas Swarup, told journalists last Tuesday that,

“The entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, is an integral part of India. The elections in Gilgit-Baltistan on June 8, under the so-called Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Government Order, are an attempt by Pakistan to camouflage its forcible and illegal occupation of the regions. We are concerned by the continued efforts by Pakistan to deny the people of the region their political rights and the efforts being made to absorb these territories.”

Vikas Swarup’s statement raises many legitimate questions that one must ask.

What about granting political rights to the people of Jammu and Kashmir under India’s administration? And by questioning the elections in either PaK or Gilgit-Baltistan, India is also raising doubts about the “democratic exercise of election processes” in Jammu and Kashmir as well.

Thus, India’s official stance and flawed arguments render entire Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory.

Both houses of the Indian Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution on February 22, 1994, staking claim on erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir and urging Pakistan to vacate parts of the region under its “occupation”.

The said resolution besides many other things declared that,

“a) The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and shall be an integral part of India and any attempts to separate it from the rest of the country will be resisted by all necessary means;

b) India has the will and capacity to firmly counter all designs against its unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

However, it was India’s first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who, in a historic broadcast from New Delhi on November 2, 1948, said,

“We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the people. That pledge we have given, and the Maharaja (Hari Singh, then autocratic ruler of Jammu and Kashmir) has supported it, not only to the people of Kashmir but to the world. We will not, and cannot back out of it. We are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum held under international auspices like the United Nations. We want it to be a fair and just reference to the people, and we shall accept their verdict. I can imagine no fairer and juster offer.”

The recent revisionist history also counters India’s claim that ‘Pakistan is the first aggressor’, as the Australian author Christopher Snedden offers a new perspective regarding ‘who actually started the dispute over the international status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)’ in his book,‘Kashmir: The Unwritten History’.

India has not fulfilled her pledge and promise till date.

The Indian counter argument to the plebiscite could be that Kashmir’s then towering political figure, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, signed an accord with India’s then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1975. And that the matter should end there.

But it doesn’t stop there because India conveniently forgets the post-1975 historical events.

A popular anti-India armed uprising, fully backed by the local population, erupted in 1989 to challenge India’s rule in Kashmir after all political and democratic options had been literally “exhausted” by the local populace. The armed rebellion happened only two years after the most-rigged assembly elections of 1987.

Keeping in view Kashmir’s present and past and all historical facts, it is absurd to ask the 86-year old Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani that he “should go to Pakistan if he feels J&K is an occupied territory” and thinks of himself as “a ‘Qaidi’ (prisoner) in Kashmir”.

What kind of argument is this?

Why would someone born and brought up in Kashmir be asked to go to Pakistan?

His attaining or not attaining a passport is a non-issue. It is not for the first time that Geelani has applied for a passport. Earlier he has travelled to Makkah to perform Hajj and also wanted to travel to the United States for kidney treatment but was denied visa by the US authorities. This time he intends to visit his ailing daughter in Saudi Arabia.

One could also argue that this time around, Geelani could have easily avoided the passport controversy, but then Kashmir remains a dispute with or without Geelani’s passport.

But then pre-independence Indian leaders, including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, fighting British imperialism have travelled abroad, South Africa, Germany and the United Kingdom, on British passports?

Obtaining a travel document doesn’t mean surrendering one’s political ideology and opinion!

It is not only the pro-freedom factions of the Hurriyat Conference or pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) which challenge India’s rule in Kashmir, even the pro-India politicians like Engineer Sheikh Abdul Rashid talk about “defeating colonial designs of the Indian state in Jammu and Kashmir.”

Independent MLA from Langate, Kashmir Rashid on Sunday unfurled the state flag of Jammu and Kashmir for the second time after he had done the same last year on June 7 at Sher-e-Kashmir Park in Srinagar.

MLA Rashid said that Jammu and Kashmir got the state flag after the 1952 Delhi Agreement.

“Our flag represents our sentiments.”

Amid cheers from his supporters Kashmir’s national anthem, written by the late Moulana Masoodi, was also played on the occasion, as the maverick leader demanded that June 7 be declared the Jammu and Kashmir state flag day.

It is in Indian media’s own interest to stop the rhetoric over Kashmir and make sincere attempts to understand Kashmir’s political history and proper context.
 
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1. Pakistan can get oil through its land routes, I am not clear if any pipeline from Iran or central Asia passes through Pakistan or not but its a possibility. Naval blockade also can easily be broken by China. India cannot challenge Chinese ships realistically if they are going to resupply Pakistan.

2 Complete take-over of Kashmir is fanciful notion at best and a dangerous one at worsakistan army's raison d'etre is Kashmir. If India looks to be in position to take back Kashmir be assured stakeholders in Pakistan will use the nuclear option. How will it serve justice to thousands of Indian Forces who have sacrificed their life safe guarding India if Nukes drop on our cities?



Agreed. I am saddened by the fact that there has been no progress in negotiation for last 70 years or so. Some hostilities run too deep and i think status-quo is best what can be achieved in the present circumstances

1. War uses up oil at a pace more than what can be imported, hence talking about reserves here. Historically, in all the India-Pakistan wars, oil reserves had been the problem. Again that's why Indian Navy had attacked Karachi oil depot. There is a lot of difference between can be imported via some alternate route and being actually imported. This is not exactly getting a packet of biscuits from the local market.
2. One has to compensate for the losses made over the year. So far as Kashmir is concerned, I don't see any other solution. If indeed it comes to a nuclear showdown, well so be it. How much area will a nuke destroy ? 10..20..30 sq. km? We will flatten Pakistan after that, only they should cross the threshold first.
 
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Your rhetoric of 1971 will be answered soon In sha Allah.

Then we were embroiled in an internal conflict supported by your gov't illegally as your premier just acknowledged recently and we surrendered to save the life of innocent Bengalis getting killed unaware of Hindus designs.

In 99 your army ran short of coffins had it not been coward nawaz shareef your army was badly trapped.

It's hard to swallow but the bare truth is IA is no match of our passion . Oppressors can never be brave and courageous.

You really need some real history lessons. ..not the PA propaganda that's been fed into your brain. On 71, Google and read hamidhur rehman report, on kargil ..

On March 4, 2015 reports surfaced that Abdul Majeed Malik, a retired Pakistani lieutenant general, has written a book about his time in the military, focusing, particularly, on the Kargil war.

The conflict, which lasted from May to July 1999, was sparked when Pakistani forces infiltrated the Kargil sector of the Indian administered portion of Kashmir and occupied the territory.

At the time, Pakistani Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif hastily descended on Washington, interrupting President Bill Clinton’s July 4 celebrations, to secure his help in brokering a ceasefire. As a result of U.S. intercession, Pakistan withdrew its troops, and the real possibility of a full blown nuclear war with India was averted.

Nawaz Sharif was subsequently overthrown in a coup by General Pervez Musharraf, the head of the army during the Kargil affair. Musharraf went on to become a much feted and lauded ally of the United States. As he has maintained in the years since the war ended, the conflict was a great success for Pakistan, even though Sharif technically “lost the war.”

Malik’s expose on the Kargil war is one example of Pakistan’s enduring cottage industry of memoirs written by retired military man. Usually penned years after their service has ended, these books tend to make “shocking” revelations and confirm rumors that have long circulated in the public sphere.

Rather than engage and learn from history, Pakistani military and civilian rulers regularly promote very skewed and often false versions of events to the public via propaganda. To this end, the discipline of “Pakistan Studies” has been created to propagate a distorted history to school children in Pakistan. The respected Pakistani historian Khursheed Aziz analyzed many of these lies in his book, “The Murder of History.” Aziz demonstrated that in Pakistan’s school curriculum myth is peddled as fact. For instance, in the Pakistani Studies book for grade 5, young children are taught the following “4 atrociously distorted lies” about the war that led to the secession of “East Pakistan” and creation of Bangladesh:

India engineered riots in East Pakistan through her agents and then invaded it from all four sides. Thus Pakistan was forced to fight another war with India. This war lasted two weeks. After that East Pakistan seceded and became Bangladesh.

Instead of reviewing the various, complex causes of the civil war, children are taught the conflict was the simple result of Indian conniving. Of course, this false protrayal does not address the disgraceful role played by the military and Pakistani politicians in the war.

As many memoirs from former Pakistani military personnel have confirmed, the secession of East Pakistan was due to the shortsightedness of Pakistan’s leadership. In fact, the army’s official spokesperson during the 1971 war, Abdul Rahman Siddiqi, has documented how the military high command was busily plotting the perpetuation of then-dictator Yahya Khan’s rule when the civil war broke out.

Similarly, Malik’s book clarifies many details about the Kargil war. Most importantly, he affirms the long held belief that the operation was conducted without any civilian oversight. According to Malik, Musharraf planned the affair without any input from his fellow generals, even keeping his eventual successor, Ashfaq Kiyani, “in the dark.” The Kargil operation also disrupted the promising peace initiative Sharif had inaugurated, at the time, with then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

After sabotaging the Sharif peace initiative, Musharraf spent most of his time in power trying to woo India back to the negotiating table. The Indians remained distrustful of Musharraf, however, rightly believing him to be the Kargil attack’s architect.

The publication of Malik’s book is yet another reminder of the Pakistani army’s privileged domestic position. Despite engineering a dangerous war with India, without any clear purpose or strategy, Musharraf has never been brought to account for his reckless actions.

you people are fed PA administered propaganda from a young age...surprisingly it's a few pakistanis who reveal it to all being a lie, but even so...All keep following the same propaganda and keep repeating it without even making an effort to know the reality.

As for coffins..The most shameful thing that your 4 generals of the day did is that they refused to even accept killed pakistani soldiers bodies..because it would have exposed their lies about the kargil misadventure. Stop learning propagated alternate history...the truth is out there in the open for all to see all over the Internet.
 
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Of Course we are proud Indians .Proud about our civilization,our nation,our people .And you cant do anything about it.
It actually applies to you and your country and is proved by desperate statements mode is making.

Carrying out fake operations just to raise the morale of actually dead populace.

Myanmar denies India killed rebels inside its territory - Channel NewsAsia

You people are so proud to be called Indian without realizing this name was given by British to you in 16th century owing to your skin color and manners of life same way they labeled the US native people "Indians"





Every 30 Minutes an Indian Farmer Commits Suicide, Biotech Is Not To Blame - Forbes


clearly shows your resources and how you are utilizing them


Of Course Mynmar will deny that ops because they cant tell their people that some foreign nation violated their sovreignity.


And this nation reduced the poverty to around 20%.Our money ,our resources we will do whatever we want to protect our national security and interest whether you like it or not.
 
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There is nothing Pakistan has, which India doesn't and more and in many cases better.

Strategic importance and the placement in the entire region.... eek taraf tumharay China hey aur doosre Taraf Pakistan aur dono nay India ko L pe rakha huwa hey.... where as Pakistan is central btw the entire region..
 
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Distribute half of nukes across international border telling world we wont use them unless india violates international border and start our offensive from north from siachin and kargil sectors and arm Kashmiri youth let the two armies fight and the stronger will be winner and we all know who will that be.

If we can deter india from international border and fight a localized war in Kashmir with the help of kashmiries I am sure we can win it in less than a month.

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How about peace and good relationship with you...No war,economic etc prosperity. Is it not worth it?ofcourse you will say no...

India is doing pretty well as it is.. There is no need for it to compromise on its position on Kashmir. There is nothing that Pakistan can bring to the table that can change the situation.
 
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Kashmir has no military solution whatsoever after nukes on both sides. The best chance was probably in 1948 and then 1965. Blowing hot air now won't solve anything.

Military wants budget and some kids want to satisfy their inflated egos; therefore, such blabbering and shouting continues on both sides.
 
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Strategic importance and the placement in the entire region.... eek taraf tumharay China hey aur doosre Taraf Pakistan aur dono nay India ko L pe rakha huwa hey.... where as Pakistan is central btw the entire region..
Pakistanis have been peddling this snake oil called 'strategic important region ' for a long time without elaborating on what it is. If being in the neighborhood of a perpetually problematic region is strategically important, then congratulations to Pakistan.
 
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Option 1. Pakistan peacefully gives back occupied Princely state of J&K, including Gilgit Baltistan.
Option 2. India takes it back through war and breaks up Pakistan in pieces.

As an Indian citizen, no other option is acceptable to me.

Exactly! I still can't believe we let our politicians sit on their haunches all these years happy just to maintain status quo - when ALL OF KASHMIR belonged to India 'legitimately'!
 
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