India's Missile India has fired a new missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead more than a thousand miles. It interrupts an interlude in which progress seemed to be under way between India and Pakistan. India's government got a great lift out of the first missile, with which it breached non-nuclear status, and it may be saved from dissolution by its latest missile. Nuclear power may be a political asset, but in practical terms, it may be a disaster for India.
Few countries are more vulnerable to such weapons of mass destruction.
An exchange of such weapons involving countries of such great population density would cause unbelievable casualties. Few countries have a greater need for negotiating a non-nuclear status. It is too bad that American diplomacy failed again to keep India from exploiting nuclear weapons. Inc. Reproduction without permission is strictly forbidden.