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I believe this could very easily spiral out of control, Pakistan reacting with use of nuclear arms to counter the large Indian military personnel numbers. When this happens all bets are off.

The scenarios I've seen talk of limited nukes hitting cities close to the border. Sorry, but I see new Dehli and Islamabad as much more likely targets.

The scenarios I've seen talk of limited nukes hitting cities close to the border. Sorry, but I see new Dehli and Islamabad as much more likely targets.

City Populations: New Delhi - 11,680,000 (2000 estimate, Source: United Nations Population Division, 1996) Islamabad: 5,800,000 (source unknown).

This would indeed be ugly. I'm surprised the numbers aren't much higher.

They, as in both India and Pakistan, will be forced to hit large civilian targets. The idea of nuclear weapons is to inflict enough damage to have the other side "stand down". Niether side has enough warheads to make sugical first strikes an option. The casualties will be huge, on both sides. The on going contamination could reduce the population of both countries by as much as 50 to 60 percent. Pakistan has the most to lose in the exchange because their population is so much smaller that India, but the Islamic, 14th century attitude won't let them back down from this. The above facts combined with the fact that both countries are severly lacking in health care that could help in a devastating nuclear attack, and the fact that most of what little modern technology that both have will be knocked out by the strike (communications, computers, transportation, energy) will be gone as well, makes this a scary deal.

I have noticed that the UN is very quiet, in their caves, about this. As a matter of fact, I see only one nation trying to drench the fire....that would be the good old United States of America. Big surprize, huh? The UN is worthless!

The only bright spot here is, if India does go to launch mode many rag heads of Al Quaida (sp) will be chimney soot as well. India has many more warheads than do the Pakistanis.

I believe this could very easily spiral out of control...

I believe you are correct, however...I also believe that the one thing that will keep this from happening is that Pakistan has to know it will be swatted like a bug if it uses nuclear weapons against India. They don't stand a chance against a truly pissed off Indian response.