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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (470)5/13/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12475
 
Ref: Nuclear test-From CNN and BBC: What people think,opinion poll.

Bonnie:

I will read it thanks. Here is a link from BBC,CNN also has some interesting discussion going on there as well.

community.cnn.com@170.uIdtrrMe^1@.ee8f06a#top

news.bbc.co.uk



To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (470)5/13/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: LoLoLoLita  Respond to of 12475
 
Bonnie,

The article you posted did not refer to testing of a thermonuclear device. India tested a fission device in 1974.

David




To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (470)5/13/1998 8:59:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12475
 
Bonnie: The point is nobody new about this particular tests though they were aware of the general direction India was taking with respect to her nuclear ambitions. What is even more annoying to these world 'powers' was the fact that India never consulted anyone or notified them in advance about these tests and that seems to be the crust of the problem.



To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (470)5/13/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Worswick  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 12475
 
Bonnie I said I would reply to your questions of Monday. First, ask yourself who is the American Ambassador to India. The very first thing ask yourself that.

Second: Pakistan has the capability of making an atom bomb, India just tested in one of the five tests... a hydrogen bomb. We are talking about a big, big bomb here.

Third: China. At this moment, as it has for the last thirty odd years, China occupies a Nevada -Utah size space of Indian territory in Ladakh. In the early 1960's the Chinese built a road that bisects Ladakh that the Indian's didn't notice for 18 months. The road and the 1960's attack on the Indian NEFA area has caused an Indian troop presence in the Northwest areas for a generation. It's a tough "war" becasue it's hard to get equipment and men to work at above 15,000 feet.

China is the big bugaboo to India...and vice versa. Chinese supply of Pakistan has been part of this geo-political game between India and China.

Now. The ravings Indian nationalists aside - 91% Indian urban approval - the volume is being turned up on the program called "Nuclear fires and Nuclear Hell".

Believe me if India persists with this assininity it's banks will go bust, the country will beack in a foregin exchange crisis like 1991 and the Chinese will give H bomb technology to Pakistan. Why should they( the Chinese) fry India... when the Pakistanis are dying to even the game by blowing the goal posts away.

As for 91% of the urban people backing the tests... the Indians, the great preponderance of them have more concerns with having adequate housing, misquito control, and power... let alone an adequate diet.

In he meantime people like our ultra nationalist threadster Sankar Acharya will be revealed as generous minded, well rounded, humanists in the ongoing discussions.

I wonder how many of the Indian originated "nationalists" here on this discussion group have ever spent any time let alone months and months like I have in Indian villages living on a village economy. Few. Pitifully few becasue they would see that the "new" India standing proud over the nuclear fires is something the country can't afford. Doesn't need. And will launch them (the Indian nationalists) on a road that a certain point it will be exceedingly difficult to turn back from.

In closing... believe me "the great game" is alive and well. It just got goddamnd more expensive.

And we will soon know in this game of musical chairs who has a chair and who doesn't.

My best,










To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (470)5/19/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins  Respond to of 12475
 
Bonnie; Off Topic, but in as much as you mentioned the CIA
have you ever read the CIA hand book.
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
It's about 26pages so I don't want to post it, but
in it's full context it's chilling to say the least.
Bound to become an American classic.
Jim