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Article: Q: Will India and Pakistan press the nuclear trigger? A: No, but nuclear weapons are an irreversible reality in Asia

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Following the Bangladesh conflict of December 1971, President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto convened a meeting of Pakistan's nuclear scientists in Multan in January 1972. Bhutto declared that never again should Pakistan allow India's superiority in conventional forces to give it an opportunity to repeat what it had done in December 1971. The scientists were instructed to devise plans to develop nuclear weapons, which would act as an "equaliser" to match Indian conventional superiority. In his memoirs, written in jail, Bhutto remarked that the "Hindu, Jewish and Christian" civilisations had nuclear weapons capability and that he was determined that the "Islamic civilisation" should set the balance ...

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