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...Still, both were equally jubilant Friday. Celebrations on the streets of Islamabad were matched in New Delhi by what TIME bureau chief Tim McGirk calls "a profound mood of relief that India is no longer alone in being ostracized." Whether such emotions are justified, given the plunging rupee in India and the boarded-up banks in Pakistan, is another question. McGirk also reports a "serious risk" of conflict in the disputed border region of Kashmir -- claims and counterclaims of militant infiltration that "would not go nuclear immediately" but may eventually risk the world's first atomic war. The subcontinent...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Jay Branegan with Clinton, Tim McGirk and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi and Douglas Waller/Washington
...this point, they've just decided to throw caution to the wind," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Tim McGirk of India's attempt to elbow its way into the nuclear club. "They're saying, 'Enough of this shilly-shallying around -- we've done the test, and we're going to build up our arsenal...
...impress the Big Five -- America, Russia, Britain, France and China -- it won't go down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...
...economy that receives little U.S. aid. But if the U.S. manages to cut off loans from international institutions, and major donor nations such as Japan, Germany and Denmark carry out their threats to withhold aid, ?India?s government will find it?s made a disastrous miscalculation,? says McGirk. After all, India may have advanced thermonuclear weapons capability -- but it remains a Third World economy...