Comments on: Crown Jewel Panic

By: Chikki

Chikki — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:16:23 +0000

Ya! Troops are what will prevent a nuclear bomb from entering India. Ha! Funny guy!

By: DaveyBoy

DaveyBoy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:52:42 +0000

What does pointing nuclear weapons at India have to do with the Indian military not retreating? As someone pointed out earlier, soldiers are not instrumental in diverting or preventing nuclear weapons from being deployed against India. In fact they become the first line of casualty and are defenseless. The military had increased its numbers at the border due to provocations stemming from 26/11. The whole argument is confusing since its based on an unviable premise.

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:13:33 +0000

Not only does NEST exist, there's even a recent book by Jeffrey Richelson on it. (Richelson's earlier book, Spying on the Bomb is also interesting by the way)

By: Nagarajan Sivakumar

Nagarajan Sivakumar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:44:20 +0000

Nitin,
I come to this blog quite often and like the ideas presented here. If i could give you a word of caution, that would be NOT TO RELY on anything that Sy Hersh reports.

This was the same guy who breathlessly reported Bush admn plans to attack Iran over its “alleged” nuclear program in 2007 – only of course reality intervened and nothing of that sort happened. As we later on found out Bush refused to greenlight former Israeli PM Olmert’s decision to bomb Iran – why? because he was concerned about the retaliation that the US military would have to likely face in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hersh is a sensationalist and should be working for any of the British trash tabloids.. instead he uses his one or two resources in the US military to spin fantasy tales.

For those who have a reality based analytical process Obama is now openly wondering how fast he can retreat US forces from Afghanistan… and we are now supposed to believe that Obama has the balls to conducts an ultra sensitive “snatch” operation…

Sy Hersh – epic fail

By: photonman

photonman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:51:19 +0000

@ Chandra

Good point May be the “cold start” doctrine is another reason why Indian offensive formations are stationed close to the Pakistani border. That way important Pakistani cities also become more vulnerable.

Of course, don’t ask me why seemingly nothing happened after 26/11…

By: Chandra

Chandra — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:08:22 +0000

Does what Sy Hersh says make any sense? What would Indian soldiers on border do if Pakis were to use nuclear weapons on India?

Indian soldiers border are there to push back incoming regular Paki army or Islamic jihadi army if Pakiland falls apart quickly. It would be silly to say if Paki nukes were pointing north, towards Uzbek, India doesn’t have a threat from extremely unstable Af-Pak area and that India doesn’t need an alert border.

But this is the usual stuff Sy Hersh peddles – give credence to one or two sources in CIA or pentagon and it’s never the complete or real picture.

By: Kedar

Kedar — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:42:27 +0000

Yup! Thats it! Whatever you do, just dont scare the mad man! Who knows what the insane do when they are scared…

In the meanwhile, we are happy to live in his fear, until one day the mad man does get scared for whatever reason and does what he’s been itching to do for so long!

It just shows how helpless we are…

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:53:04 +0000

The idea of using snatch teams to denuclearise Pakistan is crazy

By: Balaji

Balaji — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:20 +0000

don’t know how seriously shud one take Seymour Hersh. i hope we have our own snatch teams which’ll try to de-nuke Pakistan in the event of a crazy escalation. wonder if those bunker busting bombs are operational.