22 January 2008

How Different History Could Have Been and Still Might Be...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Mediterranean_Event

The Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy aerial explosion over the Mediterranean Sea, similar to a small atamic bomb.
Nuclear war could have erupted between India and Pakistan in 2002 if the asteroid had come a few hours later and exploded over the disputed Kashmir territory instead of the Eastern Mediterranean (the same latitude). How fragile our world is...

More recently, are we headed for another cold war?

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/discussion.aspx?fldIdTopic=1165&fldIdMsg=1251

1 comment:

  1. I think we've talked about the inevitability of another cold war. But definitely interesting what if.

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