> India and Pakistan didn’t nuke each other last time(s)… even though they had nuclear weapons. I was referring to the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947-1948 where th

> India and Pakistan didn’t nuke each other last time(s)… even though they had nuclear weapons. I was referring to the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947-1948 where the conflict focused on water rights. Nuclear weapons did not enter the picture until much later. Earlier this year, those old tensions about water rights resurfaced: https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/02/india-and-pakistan-are-playing-dangerous-game-indus-basin https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/02/india-and-pakistan... > For the same cost (and energy requirements) for a set of nukes we can filter salt from ocean water or collect rain. The fight would be over the water flowing through the Indus, which is orders of magnitudes more than all Indian and Pakistani desalination projects combined.