Mar 21, 2021
When Obama left the White House he stated that the thing that
kept him up at night more than anything else was the potential for
Pakistan and India to stumble into an unplanned nuclear
exchange.
What was once a regional conflict has now drawn in a number of
great powers such as China, and the US, but no side yet has a real
plan to try to avert the risk of this simmering conflict going
nuclear. The estimate is that in the event of an Indian invasion
toward Islamabad the Pakistani command may only have around 6 hours
to either "use or lose" their nuclear weapons, so we ask our panel
what the likely outcome will be for this nightmare
scenario.
On the panel this week.
Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University)
Adam Weinstein (Foreign Policy)
Andrew Small (George Marshall Fund)
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