No, I'm not reminiscing about a leftist splinter group of the 1960s. I'm passing on what Dr. Jeff Masters, who really is a meteorologist, warns as India and Pakistan trade small attacks and big threats.
The shooting war would be only the beginning. It gets worse. Read it all.As nuclear-armed India and Pakistan engage in military clashes over the disputed Kashmir region, consider that a “limited” nuclear war between them is capable of causing a catastrophic global nuclear winter that could kill two billion people. The inevitable wars and diseases that would break out could kill hundreds of millions more.
A 2008 paper by Brian Toon of the University of Colorado, Alan Robock of Rutgers University, and Rich Turco of UCLA, "Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War", concluded that a war between India and Pakistan using fifty Hiroshima-sized weapons with 15-kiloton yield on each country, exploded on cities, would immediately kill or injure about forty-five million people. However, the final toll would be global and astronomically higher, according to recent research. ...
It is not clear to me that a more responsible U.S. regime could do much to diffuse this potential catastrophe. But it sure doesn't help that at this moment this country has sloughed off any credibility it might have had to restrain two putative allies.
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