Dear Log,
In a story entitled "India alert as nuclear war looms":
«The foreign secretary Jack Straw last night urged Britons to leave India immediately because of its "dangerous" military stand-off with its nuclear rival Pakistan and advised all nationals against travelling to the region.I can just picture embassy staff getting little notes in email from Mr. Straw: Please remain perfectly calm as you flee an impending nuclear war. There is nothing to be alarmed about.The decision was taken after western intelligence assessments warned that a new terrorist attack in India or the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir could spark war between the two countries, leading to a nuclear exchange.
[...and now the part that just makes my eyes bug out:]
The advice to Britons to leave India was voluntary because the [UK] government did not want to appear alarmist, diplomatic sources said.»
Note to self: buy stock in companies developing radiation-resistant breeds of rice. Also, eat lower on the food chain for a few hundred thousand years.
Re:A small fleet of British Airways jumbojets ...
pudge on 2002-06-05T17:24:20
From the reports I get from the news, and from how the governments in Europe and America are acting, this seems scary. But I just can't see how either Pakistan or India is on the brink of actually using nuclear weapons.
