Aoa
QUOTE(2 aliph 5 @ Feb 17 2008, 05:39 PM)

Three successfull hits will more then enough for India.
One for Mumbai.
One for New Delhi.
One for Calcutta.
On the other note: God forbids that may it never come to this. Personally I believe, India and Pakistan are in a useless arms race which is only forcing each other to do wrong to their own population. India wants complete edge based on the fact that is so much stronger in every sense now and Pakistan is not letting attain that edge by always trying to match India's acquisitions with her own.
War between the two ? Highly unlikely as long as both have Nuclear Weopons in their own control.
I disagree, if we are able to sucessfully nuke these three cities we wouldnt' achieve the objective outlined by the topic starter i.e. to completely annihilate Hindustan rendering it as a defunct state. It will kill a lot of people, but that is about it. They will temporarily be faced with some crisis, however, it wouldn't kill more then a large percentage of thier population or rather large enough percentage. Then you have to take into account the fact that there are other countries in the world as well, and imagine the aid that would start pouring in and what have you. It would be a loss, but not something that will 'completely annihilate them and render them as a defunct state'. It could even bring them back stronger. A good example is Japan, they got hit in two cities, major ones, they are the second largest economy now. And India being hit in three, considering it's population size, would be in a much better position to come back.
As far as I know, you have to take out more then 50 % of the total population to destroy the social structure of a society completely. Three cities are nothing close to that target.
So in view of that, if we must prepare to achieve that objective, we have to develop Hydrogen bombs, with high yeild, thier area of destruction is much larger and we wouldn't need too many to achieve the objective outlined above.
And Allah knows best.
w/salaam