Comments on: India v Pakistan – denuclearisation beckons? http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2005/03/03/india-v-pakistan-denuclearisation-beckons/ Peering down the corridor of uncertainty. It's about cricket, sport and journalism Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick Mallory http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2005/03/03/india-v-pakistan-denuclearisation-beckons/comment-page-1/#comment-762 Nick Mallory Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:19:38 +0000 http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2005/03/03/india-v-pakistan-denuclearisation-beckons/#comment-762 Surely the fact that both countries now have a few nuclear weapons, however crude, is the main factor which diminishes - not increases - the possibility of all out war between them. No border skirmish in Kashmir is going to be allowed to escalate now each side risks losing their capital city to a big one. Assuming that both governments are rational actors (an assumption you definately cannot make about the Stalinist goons in North Korea or the crazed theocrats in Iran) nuclear weapons might be the best thing that have happened on the sub continent to boost security. With India enjoying an economic boom thanks to their abandonment of some of their crazier protectionist policies and Pakistan having chosen the right side on the war on terror, surely cricket just symbolises the optimistic turn of events in the region in the last few years? Surely the fact that both countries now have a few nuclear weapons, however crude, is the main factor which diminishes – not increases – the possibility of all out war between them. No border skirmish in Kashmir is going to be allowed to escalate now each side risks losing their capital city to a big one.

Assuming that both governments are rational actors (an assumption you definately cannot make about the Stalinist goons in North Korea or the crazed theocrats in Iran) nuclear weapons might be the best thing that have happened on the sub continent to boost security.

With India enjoying an economic boom thanks to their abandonment of some of their crazier protectionist policies and Pakistan having chosen the right side on the war on terror, surely cricket just symbolises the optimistic turn of events in the region in the last few years?

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