[Fool are exactly what they are. Don't know what rushes to and into their heads but something does. Is it their ego or is this just hype and sabre rattling.
Those two silly old rivals The Rt. Wingers in India and Pakistan, please read this article and take your vacation. >From all indications, this sabre rattling is related to electoral and political interests in their respective constituencies. Politicians are drama experts. But as in the case of WWF wrestling, NOT everybody might know that this is only a chess game where a certain number of lives are sacrificed every now and again. Some......nutcase & trigger happy moron might flip and let go the first strike. That will be the end. Pull back you fools....Pull back. Don't sacrifice the nation for a tiny piece of real estate! TGF ================================= India and Pakistan: Nowhere to Hide In nuclear attack, few would find shelter By Paul Watson and Tyler Marshall LOS ANGELES TIMES June 8, 2002 New Delhi - With India and Pakistan on the brink of war over Kashmir, their people face a frightening reality: If nuclear missiles ever rain down, there is nowhere to hide. Among the 1.2 billion people of the Asian subcontinent, the only people with any hope of finding shelter from a nuclear attack are top political and military leaders and, if regular rules apply, people with enough money to ease their way into a few protective bunkers run by the governments. India's capital, New Delhi, a prime target for what nuclear strategists call a "decapitation strike" by Pakistani missiles, has no air raid sirens, no public fallout shelters and no known evacuation plan for almost 13 million residents. Indian officials in local and national departments responsible for handling emergencies referred journalists from one office to another when asked about civil defense planning. Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, is said to have fallout shelters for the generals and politicians. In the past month, Pakistan's interior ministry has run drills for police, fire and hospital workers, but hasn't educated the public on how to increase their chances of surviving a nuclear attack. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf have said repeatedly that they don't want a war, certainly not a nuclear one. But experts warn the two countries have slipped steadily closer to Armageddon since first testing nuclear weapons in 1998. "You can't really say that they're going to have a nuclear war, of course," said Achin Vanaik, an Indian scholar and political activist. "All you really can say is that the likelihood of a nuclear conflict in this part of the world is greater than anywhere else." Anti-nuclear campaigners such as Vanaik have long argued that civil defense is a waste of money, and that the only way to prevent mass death from nuclear war is to get rid of the weapons. India and Pakistan continue to build up their arsenals and test new missiles to deliver them farther and more accurately. But the countries' people haven't been told the most basic precautions such as how prevailing winds would carry the fallout plume or how iodine tablets would could help them survive radioactive poisoning. In 1999, New Delhi's government proposed a phased plan costing more than $240 million to handle the aftermath of a nuclear attack, which assumed the blast would create a "dead zone" with a radius of 14 to 30 miles. The plan included emergency medical bunkers, a disaster alert system, more than 200 protective suits for emergency workers and 750 decontamination and first aid kits, The Hindu newspaper reported. But there is no evidence that plan was ever implemented, Vanaik said. Indian hospitals are notoriously overcrowded and understaffed, and health care is worse in Pakistan. There is only one doctor for every 2,337 Indians, compared with one physician for every 406 Americans. According to a 1999 study on the likely effects of a nuclear attack on Bombay, India's largest city and commercial hub, the blast, fire and radioactive fallout from a 15 kiloton explosion would kill between 160,000 and 800,000 people in a population of more than 16 million and injure several hundred thousand more. "These estimates are conservative and there are a number of reasons to expect that the actual numbers would be much higher," wrote physicist M.V. Ramana in his report, "Bombing Bombay?" He added that the estimates don't include long-term effects such as cancer and birth defects. ===== Recommended Goan Sites in Cyberspace Goa-World at http://www.goa-world.net The Goan Forum is at http://www.colaco.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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