Anne Applebaum

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in a state of hostilities called the Cold War. Both countries possessed nuclear weapons that were aimed at each other but were never used. In the following viewpoint, journalist Anne Applebaum argues that a similar nuclear standoff, rather than an actual nuclear war, is the most likely scenario between India and Pakistan, both of which possess nuclear weapons. There is no significant reason, she states, to assume that nuclear deterrence would not work to prevent nuclear war between India and Pakistan just as it prevented war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Applebaum is a journalist based in London and Warsaw. Her writings include the book Between East and West...