Several sources report some 20 Indian troops were killed in fighting along its border with China. The high altitude area in the Himalayas in the northeast of Kashmir is a frequent site of border skirmishes, this seems bigger than most.
Americans always imagine if a nuclear war breaks out it will involve us directly. Suppose it involved China and India, both nuclear powers, both with large armies, and nothing much but mountains making attack complicated.
We might end up bystanders as the world’s two most populous nations decimate each other. Each has huge cities which would be largely impossible to defend from missile-borne nukes. Neither needs ICBMs for delivery, they occupy parts of the same continent (that’s the C in ICBM).
Of course the fallout would circle the globe, we’d all get a dose of it. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to lay in a modest supply of iodine tablets, I’ll bet they stay good for several years.
