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To: Nandu who wrote (12257)	6/17/2002 1:10:35 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) of 12475

Why have we spent seventeen billion dollars to develop a bomb that is no good? Why is it "no good"? It has shown that it can deter India from pushing into Pakistani territory to launch an attack. All India can do now is to mass its troops at the border, talk tough about "hot pursuit" etc., and jerk itself off for a while at the LoC, go back, and start riots against helpless minorities within its own territory. It can't do a whole lot more than that. Pakistan has proved the first law of nuclear warfare -- nuclear superiority does not matter. Even a country with a few crude nuclear weapons can stave off a giant. A corollary of the law is that superiority in conventional weaponry doesn't matter either. If the weak country is cornered, it can always resort to, or threaten to resort to, the N-option. NATO used this strategy very effectively against the much stronger Warsaw Pact forces during the Cold War.

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