note: why does ** care about some UN resolutions (Iraw and WMD) and not others (1998 rez for India to eliminate its nuclear weapons program or its ballistic missile systems)?
For more than two decades, arms control experts have argued that the most likely scenario for the hostile use of nuclear weapons was not between the former Cold War superpower rivals, an act of terrorism by an underground terrorist group, or the periodically threatened unilateral U.S. attack against a “rogue state,” but between India and Pakistan. These two South Asian rivals have fought each other in three major wars—in 1947, 1965, and 1971—and have engaged in frequent border clashes in recent years in the disputed Kashmir region, coming close to another all-out war as recently as 2002.
It is ironic, then, that President George W. Bush—who reiterated in the 2004 presidential campaign that his primary concern was the proliferation of nuclear materials—is actively pursuing policies which will like increase the risk of a catastrophic nuclear confrontation on the Indian subcontinent.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0725-26.htm
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