According to reliable data, Pakistan has 130 nuclear weapons and India has 172, says the writer.
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Any nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan will kill at least 50 to 125 million people, resulting in global climate catastrophes that would lower global temperatures and damage food production, resulting in famine that will be unprecedented in our recorded history.
The direct effects of a nuclear exchange themselves would be apocalyptic. India and Pakistan have built 300 nuclear weapons collectively, ranging from tactical to strategic, that have first and second strike capabilities.
According to reliable data, Pakistan has 130 nuclear weapons and India has 172. Both sides will probably use thermonuclear 200 kiloton weapons in the event of all conflict. Across the world, military conflicts are raging unabated, while the United Nations is powerless to intervene. When you read the news, it seems mankind is always at war somewhere.
Europe and Asia. The Middle East could explode in a fireball that could consume the entire area. Throughout world history, nations, alliances, and imperial empires have battled one another. Mankind has practised warfare as a way of life. In the last 3 428 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no wars.
War is almost considered an inevitability, and peace is only a vague utopian dream. It was U.S. General Douglas MacArthur who issued this solemn statement at the end of World War 2. “Military alliances, balances of power, league of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be the way of the crucible war.
The utter destruction of war now blacks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.”From the beginning of the universe some 15 billion years ago, it took 10 to 5 billion years before our planet was formed, and another 500 million years to produce life.
From the first life on Earth, it took nearly 4 billion years, up until 10 000 years, to produce civilisation. It is only in the last 80 years, barely a tick of the cosmic clock, that we have developed, deployed and used weapons capable of omnicide.
It took nearly 15 billion years to create the self-awareness of the universe that we humans represent. This self-awareness could be lost in a blinding flash of a thermonuclear war and the nuclear winter that would follow. Armageddon lies at our doorstep.
FAROUK ARAIE Benoni