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India and Pakistan became nuclear powers in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by thaway2839 5y ago
India and Pakistan became nuclear powers in 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagai-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagai-I
India and Pakistan then fought a war in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War
Preventing a war for a little more than 1 year is hardly stabilizing.
- kspacewalk2 5y agoAt least 2 conflicts since then, one cost several thousand lives before it was deescalated, the other in 2008 could have easily become "hot".