The situation between India and Pakistan seems to be growing worse by the hour.  

Today in Pakistan, dozens of self-propelled 155mm Howitzers were seen on the roads 80km from the India Border, heading toward the India border.

Pakistan has deployed HALF of their F-16 fighter Jets to Pasni Airfield in the far south east of Pakistan, which is about 780 miles from India's capital city, Mumbai.

The ferry range of an F-16 is about 2,002 miles.  Therefore, from Pasni, the Pakistan F-16's would have enough fuel to fly toward India's capital city, Mumbai, deploy their bombs or missiles, engage India fighter jets (very briefly) and still make it back to Pasni, Pakistan on one tank of fuel.

Pakistan has also deployed additional fighter squadrons in the Karachi area.

Warships have been deployed at sea to evade a possible attack and launch a counterattack.

Worst of all, Pakistan Prime Minister Shebaz Shariff (Image atop this story) appeared on Pakistan television (PTV) and publicly told India "We have 130 nukes aimed at you."

Pakistan is a client state of China, but also does "dirty work" for the U.S.

India is allied with the U.S.

So if a conflict erupts between Pakistan and India, it is actually a proxy war between the US and China.

I spoke to a nuclear scientist today and asked him what would it mean to the planet if both India and Pakistan let-loose with all their nukes, with Pakistan having about 170 and India having about 180.

The scientist, who asked not to be named because of the agency he works for, told me "The planet will get a small dose of radiation as the fallout drifts into the stratosphere.  The radiation will circle the planet within about ten days.  It will be a very mild radiation and will dissipate quickly."

He went on to say "The real problem with this is if both countries target their cities; the rubble will burn ferociously for miles and miles around the cities, spewing soot into the air.  So much soot can go into the air, that it will actually have a slight effect on the amount of sunlight that can get to earth's surface.   

The soot can be expected to cause planet-wide temperature reduction of one to three degrees Celsius.  That temperature reduction would cut the food-growing-season by HALF.  

With only half the food crop being produced, global famine will erupt; people will be killing each other to get food."

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