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Originally Posted by zraver
A Sino-Indian arms race is not good for India. You can se all the bad anaolgies you want but that wont change the underlying economics of the matter. if India can shoot down X PRC missiles, then the PRC needs x+T with t being the minimum number of warheads needed to hit the target list. China already has the Fissile material to do this. More importantly however if China does this and builds its own ABM system then India is right back where it started- open to Chinese blackmail.
While both of these situations will impact the US and its Asian allies, in the end it will impact India the most.
I am curious what reaction you think the US will have.
let me know when you climax so you can rejoin the conversation. In a nuclear show down there wont be enough Indians left to fill the void. Those not killed outright by the blast are going to be the rural poor and once the infrastructure is gone most of them will suffer a die off to make the cities look like a mercy killing. Same goes for China BTW, the Uzbecks,Tazkicks Mongols, and cockroaches will inherit Asia not India.
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Indian ABM started as a capability against Pakistan's posture and their president's and army chief's sabre rattling.
It is to call Pakistan's bluff, we need that. Then China enters the picture - you can say the law of unintended consequences. Against china we need the triad, first and not the ABM.
and yes, when you have a country which has just defeated you (1962) and goes on to build nukes (1964), do you wish that country to sit idle? It was chinas bomb which forced us to make ours.
It was not until chinas bomb, that we started taking building the bomb seriously.
Then as BM said, it goes on to give its bomb and delivery mechanisms to Pakistan, blame the perpetrators for starting and continuing the race. If china hadnt given the nukes to Pakistan, would we have started the ABM?? Probably yes, but not when it was done.