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Redo of an earlier thread.

In the wake of the horrific 11/28 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India and Pakistan were engaged in a military standoff with the former country threatening to launch air raids on the latter in retaliation for alleged Pakistani support of the terrorist attacks, and Pakistan threatening retaliation in kind. The crisis was eventually solved diplomatically, but what if it hadn’t? What if the crisis had escalated to the point of open warfare between the two nations, eventually concluding in a full strategic nuclear exchange between the two nations?

Note that this thread is meant not so much as to deal with the nuclear war itself, as the effects of an India-Pakistan nuclear war have been repeatedly analyzed over the years. Rather, what effects would such a cataclysmic event have on the rest of the world on the cusp of the 2010s? The effects of the ensuing refugee crisis and fallout on bordering nations like Iran, China, Bangladesh, etc.? On the legacy of the Bush presidency and on the incoming Obama Administration in the US? On the US-Russian New START treaty? On North Korea’s nuclear weapons program? On the controversy over the Iranian nuclear program? On the rest of the Middle East on the brink of the Arab Spring? Things like that.
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