No Nuclear War

The British Broadcasting Corp. is reporting that most of the Brits in the private sector in India and Pakistan are staying put, despite official warnings that they should leave.

The people on the ground don't think there will be a nuclear war, and I vote with them, despite the nervous Nellies in the government and the media.

The reason is that both sides, I'm sure, realize using nuclear weapons puts the cost of war so high that not even so-called victory would be worth it. It's the paradox of nuclear weapons. Without nuclear weapons, I think the United States and the Soviet Union would have gone to war in the 1950s. Instead, both sides showed admirable restraint.

And so, too, will Pakistan and India show restraint. That doesn't mean their troops might not come to blows along the Line of Control that separates the Pakistan-controlled areas from the Indian-controlled areas.