[spetznaz]

Actually i was reading up on the nuclear strategic capability of both countries, and although Pakistani nukes can only reach appro. half of india (since India is so darn huge), Indian nukes can reach ALL of Pakistan.

Thus in a nuclear conflagration India would suffer great loss to some of its major cities, but it would survive, albeit wounded.

Pakistan on the other hand would be COMPLETELY destroyed. Destroyed as in nuclear wasteland. Hence the only thing Pakistan would accomplish by engaging India through nukes is killing a few million indians (note India has a population of around a billion....it is second to china). However India would still have the capability to strike back at Pakistan, destroying it completely in the process.

[cgk]

Someone posted a chilling fact here the other day: if Pakistan were to unleash its entire nuclear arsenal on India killing 700 million (a very high figure, the poster conceded), India would still be more populous than the United States -- with only a fraction of the land.

Kind of puts it in perspective.

[Thud]

You have an exaggerated opinion of the physical effects of nuclear weapons. In this conflict they would be best used to spread mass panic and so collapse civilian economies. Their best military use would be counter-force.

[Thud]

You have an unrealistic opinion of nuclear weapons effects. Real life is not like the movies. And there has been a whole lot of lefty nonsense on the subject too. Don't fall for their propaganda.