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...DELHI: The subcontinental tit-for-tat shows no signs of slowing down. U.S. intelligence warns Friday that Pakistan is stepping up activity at a second nuclear test site -- whilst in the my-bomb's-bigger-than-yours stakes, Indian defense minister George Fernandes dismissed Pakistan's test devices as "ping-pong balls," insisting that India's largest blast beat Pakistan's by 45 kilotons to 10. In other words, both sides are battling to escape what Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- quoting William Blake -- called a "fearful symmetry...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Jay Branegan with Clinton, Tim McGirk and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi and Douglas Waller/Washington
...gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Tim McGirk/New Delhi...
...indelible subtext being Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Appropriately, the new, more naturalistic Godzilla, stepping on taxis in New York City, comes on the scene just as the world is dealing with another nuclear threat. Perhaps Godzilla will get back his fire in the belly for a sequel set in New Delhi and Islamabad...