The conflict between India and Pakistan could be also known as the “Cold War light”. India and Pakistan are regional neighbors and were always at each other’s throat. They fought three wars and are routinely exchanging rifle and artillery fire in Kashmir. After all, the subcontinent is a region of great instability. It was always dangerous, but in the last few years both countries have developed nuclear weapons that are ready to be launched.
Nuclear weapons can actually be stabilizing, because a war would mean in India’s and Pakistan’s current situation not only the loss of a few soldiers, but also the nuclear destruction of one or more of their main cities.
But on the short term, the nuclear armament race is destabilizing, because the c
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