NEW DELHI -- It seems sad rather than tragic that warring India and Pakistan have not learned lessons that history taught us after such pain and suffering. In the summer of 1998, India exploded nuclear bombs. Pakistan did the same within days to begin what is clearly a disturbing sign in the subcontinent: a destructive arms race.
What comes as an even greater worry is an American intelligence agency report which says that Islamabad's nuclear arsenal is vastly superior to New Delhi's.
Quoting intelligence sources and diplomats, NBC News said that Pakistan had five times the nuclear warhe ads that India possessed. Also, the smaller country had a far more accurate and effective delivery system. It is now believed that it has between 25 and 100 nuclear weapons, a figure that was once attributed to the bigger neighbor, which probably has just 15.