Aaron Kliegman, Washington Free Beacon: A Cold Start to Nuclear War in South Asia
An Indian general provides the latest reminder that South Asia remains 'the most dangerous place' on Earth.
The number of foreign-policy challenges facing President Trump is daunting—from a nuclear-armed North Korea to a revanchist Russia, from an imperialist Iran to an increasingly belligerent China. These global threats garner numerous headlines each day, and deservedly so. Amid this chaos, however, one conflict receives too little attention in Western media.
South Asia is home to the ongoing rivalry between India and Pakistan, the international dispute most likely to produce, in the near term, a war between two large, powerful countries in which the belligerents use nuclear weapons. Indeed, the neighboring countries, each with well over 100 nuclear warheads, have gone to war four times since 1947, in addition to several other standoffs, skirmishes, and crises that nearly escalated into war.
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WNU Editor: After the Korean peninsula, the border between Pakistan and India is where worries of a nuclear war happening have been the most persistent. And with both countries now building up their nuclear arsenals, doubly so.
