Protectionism - Let the currency war begin

[DimPrawn]

A recent study concluded that a regional conflict involving India and Pakistan dropping 50 bombs each would kill about a billion people because the atmospheric disturbance would disrupt the global food supply and people all over the world would starve.

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pd...iAmJan2010.pdf

Still not as bad as a few ppm of CO2 in the air though.

[doodab]

Hypothetical.

There will never be a Nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. It's in no-ones interest.

Probably not, but I wouldn't rule it out completely, Pakistan is quite unstable. I'd be more worried about them than the Iranians TBH.

[Zoiderman]

Probably not, but I wouldn't rule it out completely, Pakistan is quite unstable. I'd be more worried about them than the Iranians TBH.

Iran and Pak are the places which worry me the most, and now we have the Americans playing hard ball with them too...

Hmmm.

[DimPrawn]

Hypothetical.

There will never be a Nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. It's in no-ones interest.

Stability-instability paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Arturo Bassick]

Iran and Pak are the places which worry me the most, and now we have the Americans playing hard ball with them too...

Hmmm.

I do not believe that the leadership in those 2 countries is extreme enough to want to die so doubt they would start anything unless they thought they were dead anyway.

[Churchill]

I thought they got 4kt out of the last one.

Nobody is sure on the yield. After the 2009 test The Russians came out with a figure of 20kt and others have produced a figure as low as 1kt

The 2006 test was estimated between 0.5kt an 0.9kt.

Even the Yanks only use the word "probably" in relation to the tests.

[doodab]

I do not believe that the leadership in those 2 countries is extreme enough to want to die so doubt they would start anything unless they thought they were dead anyway.

Yes but Pakistan has a reasonable probability of a change of leadership or nutter infiltration. One can also envisage terrorists or rouge military shooting first and causing India to retaliate. Unlikely but possible.

[Zoiderman]

Yes but Pakistan has a reasonable probability of a change of leadership or nutter infiltration. One can also envisage terrorists or rouge military shooting first and causing India to retaliate. Unlikely but possible.

I agree completely, and I think this is the 'worst case scenario' I think could play out, or would be the one most likely.

[DodgyAgent]

Since when do the people get to vote on big things like wars?

If a government from a democratic country embarks on a war it has to be approved by the population or they get voted out at the next election. Saddam Hussain was able to go to war without any mandate from anyone.

[Churchill]

If a government from a democratic country embarks on a war it has to be approved by the population or they get voted out at the next election. Saddam Hussain was able to go to war without any mandate from anyone.

Sorry Dodgy, you're talking bollocks. During a true global conflict elections would be suspended.

The first General Election in the United Kingdom after 1935 wasn't held until 10 years later, in 1945!