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British military prepare for nuclear war aftermath
(Michael Evans & Philip Webster, Times Online, May 24, 2002)
BRITISH military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a “real possibility”. . . . Indeed, the Government is so alarmed by one of the most pessimistic intelligence assessments since the Cuban missile crisis that the military has been ordered to start planning for the possible emergency evacuation of Britons from India and Pakistan. . . . The fear in Britain’s intelligence services is that neither leader is listening to reason and that with more than a million soldiers lined up against each other, it would be difficult for either to be seen to be backing down. . . . The sources said that since both countries were new nuclear weapons powers, they did not have the same attitude to deterrence as the five older members of the nuclear club and may resort to using their weapons of mass destruction; that applied particularly to Pakistan if it faced defeat from an overwhelming Indian conventional attack.

posted by LoZo 1:03 PM