US EditionFirst-ever nuclear war is the ultimate risk of India-Pakistan conflict, say experts
- In April 2024, a terrorist incident in Indian-controlled Kashmir resulted in the deaths of over two dozen individuals, mainly tourists from India, leading to heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
- India blamed Pakistan for the attack and retaliated with airstrikes in May, while Pakistan denied involvement and promised a measured but forceful response.
- Both countries, each with about 170 nuclear weapons, have engaged in exchanges along the Kashmir Line of Control, raising fears of wider warfare with severe regional and global consequences.
- Scientific studies warn that even a limited nuclear conflict in South Asia could inject millions of tons of soot into the atmosphere, triggering a nuclear winter and causing up to two billion deaths from famine worldwide.
- The conflict underscores urgent calls for global diplomacy and nuclear disarmament to prevent a catastrophe that could provoke long-lasting environmental and humanitarian crises beyond the region.
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The shadow of nuclear power between India and Pakistan: there is no risk of a local war, but a global catastrophe
The war is always a defeat of humanity, wrote John Paul II. Yet, today, those words resonate as an unheard warning while India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers, are exchanging increasingly harsh blows along the Control Line in Kashmir, a region contended for seventy years and now more than ever the powder keg in the world. The figures are raw: at least 38 deaths among civilians, dozens of wounded, entire villages upset by the crossfire. Delhi cl…
India-Pakistan conflict: The risk of escalation between two nuclear powers
The conflict between India and Pakistan escalated Wednesday with bombings from New Delhi against the neighbouring country and artillery crossfires in the disputed Kashmir region, which left dozens dead in the worst clashes between the two nuclear powers in decades.The hostilities erupted after an attack on 22 April in Pahalgam, in the Indian part of Kashmir, which caused 26 deaths.New Delhi is responsible for the action against Islamabad, which …
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