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India and Pakistan continue to square off in the Kashmir region, a region which has been the center of a dispute between Pakistan and India since the British created the borders of the two countries. The two sides have continuously exchanged fire, gone to war, and agreed to cease-fires over their history. War in this region is all too common between the two nuclear powers, so what makes this time any different?
Unlike in the past, both sides now have advanced nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them to each others countries for use either on the battlefield, or strategically against harden targets or cities. They both also have larger, better equipped armed forces with new allies and new policies.
India with its new govt and its ministers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urging nuclear attack and the Pakistan defence minister threatens to “annihilate” India in return, these are a reminder of the costs of nuclear war.
More than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world’s protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a “nuclear winter” would cripple the monsoons and agriculture worldwide.
But the real costs would be higher and not just in India and Pakistan, where the first 21 million people–half the death toll of World War II–would perish within the first week from blast effects, burns and acute radiation, Another two billion people worldwide would face risks of severe starvation due to the climatic effects of the nuclear-weapon use in the subcontinent.
Wars have always been fought despite of their unlikeliness throughout the history due to negligent and aggressive foolish leadership,
Is this new BJP gov ready to keep the whole india at stake and opt for a bankrupt and a destroyed Nation.