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Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets by tn13 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:04PM (#12866942)
You are underestimating how much importance world politicians give to pieces of paper that mean shit for commonsense. Do you think it is hard for a country like India to send a small nuke to USA and blow it off ? They can send it via ship, commercial jets and what not.

The point of MCTR is to prevent a nation from openly admitting they have such a weapon and hence it can not be used as an argument in any future negotiations.

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Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets by LeifCarrotson on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:05PM (#12868888)
The issue isn't India performing a terrorist strike agains the US. They'd love to send nuclear missiles to Pakistan, though.
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Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets by kapilkaisare on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:48PM (#12869756)
They can already do this, and they don't thanks to

1) Their no-first-use policy

2) Pakistan already having nuclear weapons

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Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets by tn13 on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:58PM (#12876504)
US money that funded Osama, current money that ends up funding Pak Army/ISI seems to be a lot greater factors in destabilization of Pakistan than anything India has ever done.

For example I never understood USA providing F16s to Pakistan. It is nothing but USA's attempts to escalate the tensions.

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Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets by tn13 on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:54PM (#12876475)
And India needs ICBM for that ? If India wants to wipe out Pakistan off the map it is perhaps the easiest things to do than developing some nuke technology.
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