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.
