Social media has been extremely entertaining (and disappointing) for the last decade. Blinded by nationalist pride, justice warriors have been active with such ferocity that the absurdity of it all ended up reaching new heights. There was an online Twitter poll to gauge the extent of public support for a nuclear offensive. Across the border, you’d have ended up with people’s willingness to sacrifice millions, just so they could retaliate with their prized nuclear warheads. Typical narrative, same institutionalized brainwashing, separated by a virtual boundary. The premise is preposterous and flawed to the core.
Why India can not afford a nuclear war with Pakistan is what humanity should not wish for. We have seen it in the past as well. The USA is the only Country that Used Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan killing millions. There has been a hand full of martyrs in history whose deaths are remembered and celebrated, the masses go into mass graves as well. Nuclear Weapons are supposed to be lethal. Nuclear engineering in Pakistan universities is top-notch as I have personally visited PINSTEC (Nilore; where is Pakistan’s 8MW nuclear plant for civil use) and PIEAS. Remember Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are for deterrence and Pakistan’s nuclear power generation capacity is negligible (KASHNUP Pakistan nuclear power plant Karachi, and CHASMA).
A Normal Nuclear Pakistan
Estimated Nuclear Fallout if Pakistan Strikes New Delhi with 45 kilo Ton Estimated fatalities: 195,640, Estimated injuries: 499,380
Nuclear weapons are not Shurli Patakhay (nuclear fire noodles Pakistan), these are supposed to be lethal. The death toll from a nuclear war will be too ghastly to contemplate. It’s understandable, time and again, the leadership would love to appease rightist vote banks by fueling cross-border hatred, but that doesn’t stop it from being hilarious (and sad). Misplaced pride and massively inflated ego have made the populace oblivious to the fact that millions would perish in the fallout of a nuclear disaster. Let’s not invest in health care, education, and infrastructure because, well, the established narrative is too critical to ignore. It’s basic logic if a whole continent can learn to coexist and develop a functional free market after enduring two world wars, so can two neighboring countries that have sprung from the same civilization.
Pakistan Nuclear Test
Einstein not giving a shit to the Nuclear test in the back.
At times of war, a voice against war is never appreciated by the state. They need people to be united to form a stronger narrative. Thus, opinion is manipulated or changed via Social Media propaganda (Facebook statuses, Tweets, Ads, News Headlines). The only thing we need to keep in mind is the fact that there is no such thing as bad publicity. One of the ways to counter such narratives is to not share anything related to war (except for the hard-stated facts in this article). Narratives are fueled by the banter of the masses. Ignoring them might seem weird but it might be one of the best tactics out there. And we speak so because any person ready/willing/proactive about war has not truly witnessed/experienced war (read pain). There is no glory in war unless you were in a consultation/off-field role during it. You should be prepared but never wish for it.
Pakistan Nuclear threat to India
As ex-Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif threatened in the past to “annihilate” India with nuclear bombs in return, this is the nuclear strategy of Pakistan viz-a-viz India. Nuclear programs are popular within each country and are protected by strong institutional and domestic political constituencies. In view of these factors, international pressure over a period of decades has had a little direct impact on the attitudes of India and Pakistan concerning nuclear weapons. Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is widely regarded as designed to dissuade India from taking military action against Pakistan.
Nuclear Power Pakistan vs India
The current military buildup is initiated by India responding to a so-called terrorist attack URI on 18 September 2016 (during which at a rear administrative base camp with tents caught fire, 17 army personnel were killed.) India claimed that the attacks were carried out by four Pakistan-based terror (inauzubillah) groups fighting Indian administered Kashmir, the Jammat ud Dawa (formerly known as Lashkar-e-Taiba) and Jaish-e-Mohammad, both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan’s ISI a charge that Pakistan denied. Religion is not the problem, some people are to blame for the way they teach people to be. Changing the way somebody thinks is much the same as cutting off their heads. Language potentiate required with love.
Once again, the threat of nuclear war hangs over the Indian sub-continent as India and Pakistan teeter on the brink of another war following a series of military escalations that might worsen if Pakistan decides to respond today to its rival’s “surgical strikes” on Feb 26, 2019. Islamabad’s expansion of its nuclear arsenal, development of new types of nuclear weapons, and adoption of a doctrine called “full-spectrum deterrence” have led some observers really know that its weapons are for not-first use and only to reflect concern about an increased risk of nonstrategic balance in favor of India since the civil-nuclear deal with the US. Why afraid of Pakistan and Iran have nuclear weapons when the US and other nuclear weapon holders still doing war and looting the people and doing war crimes killing millions?
Status of Nuclear in Pakistan
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal probably consists of approximately 110-130 nuclear warheads, although it could have more. Islamabad is producing fissile material, adding to related production facilities, and deploying additional nuclear weapons and new types of delivery vehicles. Pakistan has both aircraft and land-based missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Short-range ballistic missiles and attack aircraft are the two methods favored for launching these deadly weapons.
