India versus Pakistan is a threat like no other: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

and are lobbing hardware at each other once again. And it should terrify us all. In the wars between and Islamist militants, or Ukraine and -brutal and bloody as they may be - there is only one nuclear-armed belligerent. Unfair perhaps, but it precludes the possibility of total annihilation.

Here, however, we have two such powers.

India and Pakistan have long understood each other’s nuclear doctrine. Both operate under the simple concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, with its apt acronym of ‘MAD’: if you launch nukes at a nuclear-armed state, you simply kill yourself, more than likely, and take a chunk of the world with you.

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