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The fall out of the Mumbai crisis

The fall out of the Mumbai crisis WA Today

• Kim Beazley
• December 5, 2008 “………………….India and Pakistan approached five minutes to midnight on the South Asian nuclear war clock.That was in 2002……………

  We are some way from that boiling point, but we are on the same line now.

  Australia’s interest lies not only in the human devastation such a conflagration would cause in India and Pakistan. Though wind systems keep the toxic detritus of nuclear explosions within the hemisphere in which they occur, some high altitude materials, under certain weather conditions, could drift south over WA. In nuclear war, no man or woman is an island…………………….If India decides on active retaliation as opposed to criminal investigation, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), provides a target-rich environment for special forces and the Indian airforce. Such actions will, however, bring us closer to that possible nuclear horror.

The fall out of the Mumbai crisis

December 5, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized