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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

May 15, 2025

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Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, in Bushehr, Iran on November 10, 2019. See image in the CNN article for Photo credits.

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In My Opinion:

First of all, Trump is a liar and a contradictory deceiver. and phrases like reporting to news media “sort of agreed“ over vital world news to the media —as he states in this article with CNN — is ridiculous and not newsworthy of even the following headline except to prove that what he has to say is pure conjecture.

He has insisted that Iran cannot generate and enrich its own nuclear fuel and that they cannot have a nuclear weapon, and then says to news, “that an enrichment program in Iran is a “red line” for the US.” In an earlier interview with Fox News, he had suggested that Iran could be allowed to enrich uranium to low levels. And then he says, “Enemies get you motivated and that he would apply “maximum pressure.”

Iran has said that its right to enrich uranium is non-negotiable, but the Trump administration has sent mixed signals on its position on the matter. So how can it be that “very close”, as he stated, to having an agreement?

And what the hell does “getting very close to maybe doing a deal” as he is quoted in the article. “Very close” and “maybe” are simply not of compatible meaning to one-another. We simply, under the world nuclear situation, have a president of our country who can’t even put a complete sentence together . . .

And we all know that there is no such thing as “friendly” nuclear “dust”, Trump said, which I suppose refers to nuclear fallout if the U.S. is “forced” to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if they don’t sign whatever agreement he hatches from the seat of his pants.

Having followed the USA’s erratic, contradictory, and confusing issue from the beginning to now, I am inclined to agree with the Iranian President who is reported to have lambasted the threatening remarks by Trump this way:

“The US president “is naïve for thinking that he can come to our region, threaten us, and hope that we back down against his demands,” Iranian President Pezeshkian told a group of academics during a gathering in Kermanshah Province on Wednesday, according to the Iranian media. “We will never negotiate our dignity. This is in the blood of every Iranian,”

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Trump says US is ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal after Iran ‘agreed’ to its terms

By Betsy Klein and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN

3 minute read

Published 8:36 AM EDT, Thu May 15, 2025

US President Donald Trump gestures during a business roundtable in Doha, Qatar on Thursday.

Alex Brandon/AP

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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington is “very close” to reaching a nuclear deal with Iran after Tehran “sort of” agreed to its terms.

“Iran has sort of agreed to the terms: They’re not going to make, I call it, in a friendly way, nuclear dust. We’re not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran,” he said.

Iranian officials haven’t publicly commented on Trump’s remarks, though the comments were reported by the country’s semi-official ISNA news agency. CNN has requested a comment from Iran’s mission to the United Nations.

Speaking at a business roundtable in the Qatari capital Doha, Trump reiterated that Iran “can’t have a nuclear weapon” and suggested that negotiators are “getting very close to maybe doing a deal.”

Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, in Bushehr, Iran on November 10, 2019.

Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

During his Gulf tour, Trump has repeatedly warned that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon, threatening to strike the country if it fails to reach a nuclear deal. But he has not explicitly ruled out Iran enriching uranium on its own soil. While uranium is used as a nuclear fuel, it can be weaponized if enriched to high levels.

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Iran has said that its right to enrich uranium is non-negotiable, but the Trump administration has sent mixed signals on its position on the matter.

In an interview with Breitbart last week, US foreign envoy Steve Witkoff said that an enrichment program in Iran is a “red line” for the US. In an earlier interview with Fox News, he had suggested that Iran could be allowed to enrich uranium to low levels.

Several rounds of talks have taken place between the US and Iran, but the most recent one in the Omani capital Muscat last weekend was described by the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson as “difficult.”

A senior Trump administration official gave a more positive assessment, telling CNN the discussions, which lasted over three hours, were encouraging.

Global oil prices fell after Trump’s comments. The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell over 3% Thursday morning to $64 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, was trading down 3.5% to almost $61 a barrel around the same time.

‘We are going to protect this country’

It is unclear what Trump meant by “nuclear dust,” but Gulf states, including Qatar, are concerned that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could cause an environmental catastrophe in the region and drag them into a wider regional war.

Speaking in Doha, Trump vowed to “protect” Qatar.

“For this country in particular, because you’re right next door, you’re a stone’s throw away, not even, right? You’re a foot away. You can walk right into Iran. Other countries are much further away, so probably it’s not quite the same level of danger, but we are going to protect this country, this very special place with a special royal family,” he said.

Women walk near a building bearing an anti-US mural with the slogan “Down with the USA” and skulls replacing the stars on the US flag, on Tehran’s Karim Khan Zand avenue on April 26.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian lambasted the threatening remarks by Trump.

The US president “is naive for thinking that he can come to our region, threaten us, and hope that we back down against his demands,” Pezeshkian told a group of academics during a gathering in Kermanshah Province on Wednesday, according to the Iranian media. “We will never negotiate our dignity. This is in the blood of every Iranian,”

“You have tried to bring Iran to its knees for the past 47 years. We have existed for thousands of years and will continue as one for the years to come,” he said.

On Wednesday, Trump repeated his threats, saying he doesn’t want nuclear talks in Iran to take a “violent course.”

“Two courses, there’s only two courses. There aren’t three or four or five, there’s two. There’s a friendly and a non-friendly, and non-friendly is a violent course, and I don’t want that. I’ll say it up front. I don’t want that, but they have to get moving,” the president said.

CNN’s Anna Cooban contributed reporting.

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US would assess nuclear waste, plutonium for reactor fuel under draft order | Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear power. The United States was the first developer of nuclear power but the energy source is now growing the fastest in China. Sign up here …

Trump says US is ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal after Iran ‘agreed’ to its terms | CNN

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Brazil and Russia preparing to develop SMR options – World Nuclear News

World Nuclear News

Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira has reportedly said he expects the development of a small modular reactor project with …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

No Radiation Leak or Release From Any Nuclear Facility in Pakistan – The Wire

The Wire

New Delhi: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that there has been “no radiation leak” from any nuclear facility in Pakistan …

Nuclear leak happened in Pakistan’s Kirana Hills? World’s top atomic agency finally issues statement

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There was no radiation leak or release from any nuclear facility in Pakistan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said, …

IAEA says no report of radiation leak from any Pak facility – Times of India

Times of India

The rumours intensified after some flight tracking platforms allegedly spotted a US department of energy aircraft—used in nuclear emergencies like …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Opinion | Nuclear War Avoided, Again. But Next Time? – The New York Times

The New York Times

… dangers of the modern nuclear age … threats to use a nuclear weapon in his war there. We’ve seen it on the …

North Korea’s Nuclear Missile Threat to US Homeland – Newsweek

Newsweek

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an executive order issued in January: “The threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and …

What It Means When Vladimir Putin Plays the Nuke Card | Opinion – Newsweek

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he’s winning in Ukraine, he eases up on his nuclear threats. … nuclear war—represents a de-escalation …

Nuclear War

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Opinion | Nuclear War Avoided, Again. But Next Time?

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After four days of exchanging airstrikes and drone attacks on military infrastructure brought India and Pakistan to the precipice of war, …

Trump says US is ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal after Iran ‘agreed’ to its terms | CNN

CNN

It is unclear what Trump meant by “nuclear dust,” but Gulf states, including Qatar, are concerned that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could …

What It Means When Vladimir Putin Plays the Nuke Card | Opinion – Newsweek

Newsweek

There are no small nuclear wars, so every nuclear power on Earth—there are currently nine—has the power to end, well, everything.

Yellowstone Caldera

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Man’s horrifying death as he’s boiled alive then ‘dissolved’ in national park pool – The Mirror

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The park, perched on top of a colossal magma body and hotspot plume beneath the Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the supervolcano, results in the …

Horrifying final moments of man boiled to death and then dissolved in Yellowstone pool

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

May 14, 2025

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In My Opinion:

The STATEMENT of the “Elders”, written below, relative to the continued, and preferably better, control of nuclear weapons remains a serious concern for everyone on the planet. All of humanity should support and demand that every precaution to prevent nuclear war be absolutely required for all of humanity without question.

But my personal worries for humanity extends beyond nuclear warfare as we define it today, and must be acknowledged today that there is also the added threat of nuclear energy, which did not exist in 1945, of course. Nuclear power plants are what I refer to as “stationary” nuclear weapons and are also subject to nuclear war involvement as well as such other extreme dangerous issues such as terrorism, theft of nuclear fuel (uranium) in black marketeering, and the serious threat of nuclear accidents both manmade and by so-called “acts of god” such as earthquakes, typhoons, and other geological damage that could endanger human and other life just as much as the threat of nuclear war.

There was not one word of concern about the nuclear power plant dangers that could be more likely to occur than nuclear war — or also very likely used as nuclear weapons in the event of nuclear war. This issue must be dealt with now, as it is just as dangerous to life as the threat of nuclear war. We cannot afford to allow nuclear power and uranium fuel to be taken for granted, but rather open our eyes wide to extreme oversite and constant care of “all things nuclear”, not just our concerns about the usual threats of nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

A present case in point is the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine which has been under siege for over three years, from attacks during the Russia/Ukraine war constantly causing concerns about the plant being used as a weapon of war. As nuclear power plants grow more common all around the planet, that danger of not only nuclear safety and nuclear accidents becomes even more dangerous by including weapons of war themselves. ~llaw

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Elders Statements

“No More Hiroshimas”: the Elders call for urgent nuclear dialogue as conflict risks rise

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STATEMENT: The risk of nuclear catastrophe is higher than at any time since the Cold War. Leaders are failing to uphold international law, and eroding basic norms. We are regressing into a world in which the rule of law is being replaced by rule by power, with a destabilising new nuclear arms race.

We have come to Hiroshima to honour the victims of the atomic bombing in 1945. The upcoming 80th anniversary should compel all leaders to revitalise efforts towards nuclear disarmament. Instead, we are deeply concerned at the trivialisation of the use of nuclear weapons.

We reaffirm our support for full abolition of nuclear weapons. To reach this, we need a progressive global disarmament agenda based on four essential pillars: every nuclear-armed state should adopt a “no first use” doctrine, as many weapons as possible should be taken off high-alert status, a dramatic and urgent reduction in the number of weapons that are operationally deployed, and decreasing numbers to a maximum of 500 warheads each for the USA, Russia and China.

The recent fighting between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states, underscores the terrifying risk of how quickly conflict can escalate to the point of a nuclear exchange.

President Putin’s contempt for the basic norms of state sovereignty and territorial integrity is driving a new arms race across Europe. Uncertainty around President Trump’s commitment to the USA’s traditional defence alliances is also accelerating rearmament.

Putting nuclear weapons at the heart of national defence perpetuates the dangerous myth that nuclear deterrence keeps us safe. Today’s weapons have a combined destructive capability of close to 100,000 Hiroshima or Nagasaki-sized bombs. One single bomb dropped in Hiroshima claimed around 140,000 victims by the end of 1945. Today’s collective arsenal has the capacity to destroy human civilisation.

Yet war and nuclear confrontation are not inevitable. The ongoing talks between the US and Iranian governments on Iran’s nuclear programme could be a successful example of leaders pursuing political solutions over military confrontation.

We urge President Trump to follow through on negotiating nuclear reductions with Russia and China. The looming expiry of the New START agreement between Russia and the USA could leave a vacuum at the heart of non-proliferation efforts. Both countries must focus urgently on extending an agreement that is in both their interests.

All nuclear states should also enter into sustained high-level dialogue on placing guardrails on the role of Artificial Intelligence in weapons systems, focused on how to maintain meaningful human control.

In Hiroshima, we have heard again from survivors of the 1945 bombing, whose moving testimony of the intergenerational human suffering caused by these terrible weapons must never be forgotten. We have been inspired too by the commitment of young Japanese activists to the total eradication of nuclear weapons.

We encourage the Government of Japan to be a strong global voice to strengthen the taboo on using nuclear weapons. Engaging with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is one important way for Japan to use its unique moral authority, building on the leadership it showed when hosting the G7 in 2023.

All leaders must take meaningful steps to minimise nuclear risks, revitalise dialogue on arms control and de-escalate nuclear modernisation. Failure to do so would be a betrayal of the memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the security of current and future generations.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Healey eyes nuclear, rolling back fees to try and lower energy costs | WBUR News

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All Things Considered · Here & Now · Morning Edition · On Point · On-Air … “We’re not talking about sort of your old school nuclear power plant.

Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal – Reuters

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Trump says will lift all Syria sanctions · Major investment expected from Gulf states · Trump not visiting Israel during the trip · Offers brighter …

Trump’s remarkable Middle East tour is all about striking megadeals and outfoxing China

Atlantic Council

There are new efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear-weapons potential through negotiations. And there’s Trump’s dream of finding a path to Saudi-Israeli …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear Energy Trends from Green Economy Experts – J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan

The state of nuclear energy: A critical transition point … According to the World Nuclear Association, nuclear power generates 20% of electricity and …

White House weighs NRC overhaul – E&E News by POLITICO

E&E News

Efforts to restart large nuclear plants along with private-sector investment and Department of Energy support for small modular reactor technology are …

Here’s why more nuclear plants could be coming to Arizona – ABC15

ABC15

Arizona’s three major utilities want to amp up nuclear power in Arizona to meet a growing demand for electricity.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

NNSA partners with over 70 agencies for successful radiological management exercise

Department of Energy

… nuclear power plant accident scenario … weapons of mass destruction incidents to U.S. nuclear weapon accidents and nuclear reactor emergencies.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan? – BBC

BBC

… nuclear blackmail; India will not be intimidated by nuclear threats. “Any terrorist safe haven operating under this pretext will face precise and …

“No More Hiroshimas”: the Elders call for urgent nuclear dialogue as conflict risks rise

The Elders

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India Slams Trump’s Nuclear War Speculation — “We Won’t Bow to Blackmail Backed by …

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Nuclear War

NEWS

How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan? – BBC

BBC

The crisis didn’t spiral towards nuclear war, but it was a reminder of how quickly tensions here can summon that spectre. Even scientists have …

How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan?

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with the BBC about the possibility of nuclear war between India and Pakistan. “When nuclear weapons can be …

Russian nuclear weapons, 2025 – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.

LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW

In My Opinion:

You, the reader, will have to decide for yourself whether Trump took advantage of both India and Pakistan’s “war” situation and used the bombing of Pakistan as a way to misdirect world politics and economics toward his confusing policies on tariffs and “trade” with foreign nations that is not going well.

My suspicion is that Trump’s role in “brokering” peace between the two nations had absolutely nothing to do with either avoiding conventional or possible future nuclear wars between the two countries. Even Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance has said as much, and claimed that neither he nor Marco Rubio had any ability to stop the hostility between India and Pakistan. This makes Trump’s “brokering” seem to have been staged from whole-cloth in its entirety.

I have reason to believe that Trump made it all up and used his two most important international leaders, Vance and Rubio, as scape-goats or puppets in an attempt to make the U.S. involvement far more important than he claims. But there is too much confusion about the entire issue to be absolutely certain. So this will be the last you see or hear from me on the subject, but it is obvious that neither India nor Pakistan believes Trump’s version of how the U.S. helped to “broker” the the ceasefire. ~llaw

homeWorld News“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After

“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After

Donald Trump Press Conference: “It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.

• Written by:Abhishek Chakraborty
• World News
• May 13, 2025 00:46 am IST
  • Published OnMay 13, 2025 00:06 am IST
  • Last Updated OnMay 13, 2025 00:46 am IST

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Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.

Donald Trump claims credit for averting a potential “nuclear conflict”.

He asserts that his administration brokered a ceasefire between India and Pak

Trade was not mentioned in US discussions with Indian leaders, sources say.

New Delhi:

Donald Trump has taken credit for having “stopped a nuclear conflict – a bad one” in the brink of time. Both India and Pakistan have “lots of nuclear weapons”, said the US President, adding that the two nations were going at it “hot and heavy”.

Giving himself a pat on the back, President Trump said it was “my administration that helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire. I think a permanent one”. Both India and Pakistan were “powerful and unwavering”, the US President acknowledged.

“It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.

TRUMP GOING OFF-SCRIPT?

President Trump, who was reading from a paper in a file he brought to the press briefing, perhaps to be accurate and measured as he walked the diplomatic tightrope, suddenly went off-script as he spoke spontaneously without looking at the paper shortly after a minute into the brief.

In a surprising claim Mr Trump ended up saying “I said, come on, we’re going to do a lot of trade with you guys, both countries, so let’s stop it. Stop it if you want trade. If you don’t stop, we’re not going to do any trade.” He went on to claim that “People have never used trade the way I have used it – and then all of a sudden they said ‘we’re going to stop’. They might have done it for a lot of reasons, but trade was a big one.”

Government sources have told NDTV that there was no mention of trade in the discussions. Rejecting the off-hand remark by the US President, they said, “After Operation Sindoor commenced, US Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9. Secretary Rubio spoke to the foreign minister S Jaishankar on May 8 and May 10 and to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on May 10. There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions.”

‘NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL WON’T DETER INDIA’

Less than an hour after Donald Trump’s “could have been a bad nuclear war” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned that India will not tolerate “nuclear blackmail”, and has revised its doctrine to combat terror with the commencement of Operation Sindoor. According to what PM Modi called “the new normal”, he said, “Operation Sindoor is not just an operation, but a doctrinal change in India’s policy to combat terror.”

He added that “India will strike wherever terror bases are located, and shall do so decisively if our country is attacked.”

“India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” PM Modi said in a warning to Pakistan, and a message to the world.

‘CEASEFIRE NOT PERMANENT’

Without any direct mention of Donald Trump’s White House press briefing, where President Trump claimed that this was a “permanent ceasefire”, PM Modi said Operation Sindoor is not over, it has only been suspended based of Pakistan’s assurance that it will act on dismantling terror infrastructure in the country.

“Pakistan must know that the strikes are not over, they have only been suspended after Pakistan promised it will take action against terrorists and terror facilities,” the prime minister said, adding that “In the coming days we will measure every step of Pakistan on the criterion that what sort of attitude Pakistan will adopt ahead.” If Pakistan backtracks or misleads, “Let me repeat again, that we have only suspended our retaliatory action,” he asserted, suggesting resumption of precision strikes to decimate Pakistani terror camps.

PM Modi also cautioned Pakistan that henceforth “India will not differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of the terror attack.”

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Martin Schram: Speak truth to the nuclear powerless | | themercury.com – Manhattan Mercury

Manhattan Mercury

… about how the next India-Pakistan clash could spin out of control during the “fog of war” – and erupt into the planet’s first all-out nuclear war.

Why Nuclear Stocks Constellation Energy, Vistra, and Oklo All Popped This Morning

Yahoo Finance

Costs could fall, revenues could rise, and nuclear power profits could explode — in a good way, not a Chernobyl way.

A rising nuclear double-threat in East Asia: Insights from our Guardian Tiger I and II tabletop …

Atlantic Council

… nuclear attacks by an adversary—work that is continuing today. This … All four turns of Guardian Tiger II are visually depicted in Figure 4.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US nuclear builders tight for time in race to power AI | Reuters

Reuters

The Department of Energy has proposed several nuclear sites for rapid construction of power generation and data centers but initial deadlines …

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Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.

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You, the reader, will have to decide for yourself whether Trump took advantage of both India and Pakistan’s “war” situation and used the bombing of Pakistan as a way to misdirect world politics and economics toward his confusing policies on tariffs and “trade” with foreign nations that is not going well.

My suspicion is that Trump’s role in “brokering” peace between the two nations had absolutely nothing to do with either avoiding conventional or possible future nuclear wars between the two countries. Even Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance has said as much, and claimed that neither he nor Marco Rubio had any ability to stop the hostility between India and Pakistan. This makes Trump’s “brokering” seem to have been staged from whole-cloth in its entirety.

I have reason to believe that Trump made it all up and used his two most important international leaders, Vance and Rubio, as scape-goats or puppets in an attempt to make the U.S. involvement far more important than he claims. But there is too much confusion about the entire issue to be absolutely certain. So this will be the last you see or hear from me on the subject, but it is obvious that neither India nor Pakistan believes Trump’s version of how the U.S. helped to “broker” the the ceasefire. ~llaw

homeWorld News“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After

“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After

Donald Trump Press Conference: “It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.

• Written by:Abhishek Chakraborty
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• May 13, 2025 00:46 am IST
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Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.

Donald Trump claims credit for averting a potential “nuclear conflict”.

He asserts that his administration brokered a ceasefire between India and Pak

Trade was not mentioned in US discussions with Indian leaders, sources say.

New Delhi:

Donald Trump has taken credit for having “stopped a nuclear conflict – a bad one” in the brink of time. Both India and Pakistan have “lots of nuclear weapons”, said the US President, adding that the two nations were going at it “hot and heavy”.

Giving himself a pat on the back, President Trump said it was “my administration that helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire. I think a permanent one”. Both India and Pakistan were “powerful and unwavering”, the US President acknowledged.

“It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.

TRUMP GOING OFF-SCRIPT?

President Trump, who was reading from a paper in a file he brought to the press briefing, perhaps to be accurate and measured as he walked the diplomatic tightrope, suddenly went off-script as he spoke spontaneously without looking at the paper shortly after a minute into the brief.

In a surprising claim Mr Trump ended up saying “I said, come on, we’re going to do a lot of trade with you guys, both countries, so let’s stop it. Stop it if you want trade. If you don’t stop, we’re not going to do any trade.” He went on to claim that “People have never used trade the way I have used it – and then all of a sudden they said ‘we’re going to stop’. They might have done it for a lot of reasons, but trade was a big one.”

Government sources have told NDTV that there was no mention of trade in the discussions. Rejecting the off-hand remark by the US President, they said, “After Operation Sindoor commenced, US Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9. Secretary Rubio spoke to the foreign minister S Jaishankar on May 8 and May 10 and to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on May 10. There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions.”

‘NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL WON’T DETER INDIA’

Less than an hour after Donald Trump’s “could have been a bad nuclear war” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned that India will not tolerate “nuclear blackmail”, and has revised its doctrine to combat terror with the commencement of Operation Sindoor. According to what PM Modi called “the new normal”, he said, “Operation Sindoor is not just an operation, but a doctrinal change in India’s policy to combat terror.”

He added that “India will strike wherever terror bases are located, and shall do so decisively if our country is attacked.”

“India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” PM Modi said in a warning to Pakistan, and a message to the world.

‘CEASEFIRE NOT PERMANENT’

Without any direct mention of Donald Trump’s White House press briefing, where President Trump claimed that this was a “permanent ceasefire”, PM Modi said Operation Sindoor is not over, it has only been suspended based of Pakistan’s assurance that it will act on dismantling terror infrastructure in the country.

“Pakistan must know that the strikes are not over, they have only been suspended after Pakistan promised it will take action against terrorists and terror facilities,” the prime minister said, adding that “In the coming days we will measure every step of Pakistan on the criterion that what sort of attitude Pakistan will adopt ahead.” If Pakistan backtracks or misleads, “Let me repeat again, that we have only suspended our retaliatory action,” he asserted, suggesting resumption of precision strikes to decimate Pakistani terror camps.

PM Modi also cautioned Pakistan that henceforth “India will not differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of the terror attack.”

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This is all I’m going to post here until I have all the information I need to safely say that this is a stunt and an attempt to force Pakistan and India into his never-ending failed trade agreements. There is plenty of fabrication evidence including a Trump video where he appears to be lying in his usual manner as he refers to a statement, with a few obvious telling ad libs, that he announced to the world about how they negotiated the cease-fire through “trade” — for the 1st time ever . . . Wow! ~llaw

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My Opinion:

By the way Trump is accused of lying about the U.S. helping to broker the peace agreement ratified jointly between India and Pakistan according to both nations. If true, this kind of false interference and gamesmanship could be extremely dangerous in a nuclear world environment.

CNN: “Overnight diplomacy: US President Donald Trump said a night of talks mediated by Washington helped secure the deal, after the White House received alarming intelligence on the conflict, according to US sources. Trump says he’s “proud” of the US role bringing the fighting to an end — although India has downplayed US involvement in the talks.”

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(I will try to get more information about this on Monday.)

People wave Pakistani flags in celebration after the ceasefire announcement with India, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

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The U.S. Golden Dome system would undermine the balance between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, the statement said, “one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability”.

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In My Opinion:

Have China and Russia decided to merge their nuclear war plans and procedures against the United States and Trump? They seem to believe the U.S. in increasing the risk of nuclear war. Although they do not mention Trump (in the lead article) but do say they “must stand up to “Power Politics” and named three reasons for joining together against the U.S.: the development of global missile defenses like Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome”, the militarization of space, and the sharing of nuclear technology with allies.

What I take this to mean is that they are collaborating defensively against an untrustworthy American government, although there is a hint that the “idea” of the “Golden Dome”, which is likely to never be built due to both time and money and an ongoing international expensive and intensely political defense in lieu of broken international paper pacts and agreements, which is currently what the nuclear armed nations refer to as “deterrence” that is, for now at least, the only mutual way these nations have to avoid nuclear war.

In other words the nuclear armed world has no idea how to proceed safely with what has been referred to as “Now I am Death, destroyer of worlds.” ~llaw

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Statement decries US initiatives including expansion of security alliances, development of ‘Golden Dome’ and sharing of nuclear technology

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China and Russia accused the United States on Thursday of increasing the risk of a nuclear war and vowed to jointly address threats, highlighting the escalation of Beijing and Moscow’s strategic confrontation with Washington.

After a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin held with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow, the two nations issued a joint statement on global strategic stability.

In it, they condemned several US policies, including the expansion of its security alliances, the forward deployment of strategic weapons, the development of global missile defences like the “Golden Dome”, the militarisation of space, and the sharing of nuclear technology with allies.

Such US policies sought “overwhelming military supremacy” and “absolute strategic security”, the statement warned, and were “undermining global strategic stability, spurring an arms race and increasing conflict potential both among nuclear-weapon states and in the international arena as a whole”.

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Xi Jinping says China, Russia have ‘special responsibility’ to stand up to power politics

The statement added: “The two sides note with concern that against the backdrop of aggravation in the relations between nuclear-weapon states, which in some cases has escalated to the threat of a direct military clash, a critical mass of problems and challenges has accumulated in the strategic sphere, and the risk of nuclear conflict has increased.”

The statement was among more than 20 bilateral documents signed to further the nations’ “no-limits” partnership while Xi attended Russia’s celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Germany in World War II.

Reflecting China and Russia’s strategic security view against the US-led West, the statement denounced the expansion of military alliances and coalitions by “some nuclear-weapon states” as one of “the most pressing strategic risks to be urgently addressed”.

Referring to the deployment in non-nuclear countries of missiles that target nuclear states, “the two sides strongly condemn such provocative activities that undermine regional stability and global security”, the statement said.

China and Russia, along with the US, Britain and France, are the five nuclear states that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1967 and are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Russia has repeatedly objected to the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after the end of the Cold War, contending the alliance threatened its security and citing this as a reason for its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

China has also criticised the US campaign to build “small circles” of alliances in the Indo-Pacific and opposed the deployment of US strategic missile systems to its neighbours, like the – such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic system in South Korea and the Typhon missile system in the Philippines.

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The statement singled out for criticism the recently announced “Golden Dome for America” global missile defence system that also includes interception weapons in space.

The system would undermine the balance between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, the statement said, “one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability”.

It would also turn space into a battlefield, the statement said.

“The two sides oppose the attempts of individual countries to use outer space for armed confrontation and will counter security policies and activities aimed at achieving military superiority, as well as at officially defining and using outer space as a ‘warfighting domain’,” the statement said.

The US established its Space Force in 2019 as a branch of its military and defined space as a warfighting domain in 2020.

The statement also condemned the “use of commercial space systems to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states and armed conflicts involving third countries”, a likely reference to the Starlink satellite internet network, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has played a significant communications role in the Ukraine war.

The US “nuclear sharing” and “extended nuclear deterrence” strategies that integrate non-nuclear allies into its nuclear operations were particularly risky, the statement warned, saying such tactics not only increase potential conflicts but also jeopardise international nuclear arms control.

The statement cited the Aukus partnership involving the US, Britain and Australia, that aims to transfer nuclear-powered submarines to Australia as “provok[ing] an arms race in the region”.

Citing the importance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as well as the international conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons, the joint statement also accused the US and its allies of conducting “military biological activities” both domestically and abroad and urged Japan to eliminate chemical weapon it left in China during World War II.

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All Things Nuclear

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Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety – NPR

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All Things Considered · Fresh Air · Up First. Featured. Embedded · The NPR … The commission is a mix of Democrat and Republican appointees that …

Not taking India-Pakistan escalation seriously a ‘huge risk,’ warns conflict expert – NHPR

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All Things Considered … But that carries a big risk, huge risk, because both are nuclear powers and all it takes is a miscalculation or a mistake.

Nigel Li (MAERES’25) navigates nuclear issues through a Eurasian lens – SFS

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Karwar to conduct comprehensive mock drills on May 12 for emergency preparedness

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Operation Sindoor : Mock drill held at Kudankulam Nuclear plant – UNITED NEWS OF INDIA

UNITED NEWS OF INDIA

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Nuclear War Threats

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China and Russia accuse US of raising risk of nuclear war and vow to respond to threats jointly

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China and Russia accuse US of raising risk of nuclear war and vow to respond to threats jointly

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India and Pakistan: The first drone war between nuclear-armed neighbours – BBC

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The world’s first drone war between nuclear-armed neighbours has erupted in South Asia. On Thursday, India accused Pakistan of launching waves of …

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South China Morning Post

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In My Opinion:

Every article referring to nuclear war in the media today is focussed on the threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan, so I simply picked one to represent them all, although the threat and concern levels runs the gamut of where so-called experts believe a nuclear war would actually happen all the way from not at all to very concerned in these categories:

1. Very concerned

2. Somewhat concerned
3. Not at all concerned
4. Other / No opinion

My own opinion is that it won’t happen — at least not now or yet . . . and I hope to hell I am not wrong. My reasoning is that other nuclear-armed nations are already “begging” both nations to back away from the very idea of nuclear war because if one of them launches an actual nuclear warhead, it won’t simply be the other side that retaliates, but other nations as well, which would instantly ignite WWIII, and if that happens life (including other innocent species) on mother Earth is essentially no more.

Certainly 26 deaths from the conventional missile fired by India against Pakistan is an unfortunate and cruel attack, but consider the thousands upon thousands of lives that have been lost in the 3+ years of the most recent war between nuclear-armed Russia and Ukraine (which has no nuclear weapons) in a more conventional war. Then consider also the tension-filled nuclear-armed Israel versus Iran (which has no nuclear weapons either to the best of our knowledge), cooler heads have so far refrained from nuking their helpless enemies, most likely because they know that if they refrain, they realize at least two of the reasons to use threats only: First is that any land they they acquire would be highly radioactive and uninhabitable, and the second is that whenever the 1st nuclear bomb is used, it is not just their enemy they are attacking, but rather the entire nuclear world as well as the conventional world — and that would be, as I mentioned above, the end for us all.

So it is that common sense, not deterrence or idle threats, is the path to a lasting much-needed peace on Earth. ~llaw

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Nuclear war is brewing between India and Pakistan — here’s what the world needs to know

by Donald Kirk, opinion contributor – 05/07/25 3:00 PM ET

The massacre of 26 tourists in a lovely vale beneath snow-covered Himalayan peaks last month carries implications far beyond the bloodshed. Looming above the carnage is the apparition of nuclear war erupting between two of the world’s nine nuclear powers, on a subcontinent with an aggregate population approaching 2 billion.

Neither India nor Pakistan has conducted a nuclear test since 1998, but they’re primed to tip missiles with warheads, or drop them from planes, if the massacre lights the spark that ignites a nuclear holocaust. They’ve both raised the stakes, with India going beyond missile tests to deadly strikes at what it claims were the hideouts of terrorists in the portion of Kashmir that’s held by Pakistan. Pakistan claims to have shot down two Indian warplanes, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowing revenge for “an act of war.”

India ordered the missile barrage as soldiers, police and civilian agents rounded up at least 2,000 Kashmiris suspected of playing a role, directly or indirectly, in the worst terror incident in years in the hotly disputed region. As tensions reach a breaking point, war — conventional or nuclear — is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid.

One major difference between this and previous episodes of violence is that Pakistan has cancelled an agreement establishing the “line of control” in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The two sides came together at Simla in the aftermath of the founding of Bangladesh, previously known as “East Pakistan,” which was separated from “West Pakistan” by about 1,800 miles of Indian territory. Pakistan, with the blessing of the American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, waged a bloody war to preserve its eastern and western sectors as one country. Indian military support against Pakistan was essential in Bangladesh’s victorious freedom struggle.

India and Pakistan have come to blows periodically since then, but last month’s attack could have lasting, far-reaching repercussions. Almost nightly, Indian and Pakistani forces exchange fire across the “line of control” as Indian authorities comb Kashmir for suspects. Repeatedly denying anything to do with the massacre, Pakistan has raised the specter of nuclear war in terms that would be foolish to ignore.

“The clash between two nuclear powers is always worrisome,” Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, warned in an interview with Britain’s Sky News. “If there is an all-out attack, then obviously there will be an all-out war.” Incredibly, Asif also accused India of having staged the attack in a “false flag” operation, with the implication that India had plotted the entire incident to fool people into believing Pakistan had perpetrated a slaughter that could ultimately lead to war. “We will measure our response to whatever is initiated by India,” Asif said.

Indians whom I contacted, however, are downplaying the likelihood of war breaking out right away. “India and Pakistan are very unlikely to fight a nuclear war,” the founder of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies in New Delhi, Chintamani Mahapatra, told me. “The deadly outcome of nuclear exchange is known to both parties. … Notwithstanding nuclear saber-rattling by Pakistan, it would not go to the extent of using nuclear weapons.”

One safeguard for India: “Pakistan knows that India has a large Muslim population,” Mahapatra told me. “It would not use a weapon that could kill a large number of Muslims.” Besides, he said, “The final outcome of a nuclear exchange could result in total obliteration of Pakistan — though the cost to India will be gargantuan as well.”

Indian commentators cite a declassified CIA report, exposed by a Washington nonprofit, National Security Archives, as concluding, “Pakistan sees nuclear weapons primarily as a deterrent and as insurance for its survival if a conflict developed with conventionally superior India.” The logic in the CIA report was simple: “Rapid Indian military improvements would strain Pakistan’s ability to remain competitive,” the Indian broadcaster Times Now quoted the report as saying. Pakistan would have to “rely more heavily on nuclear deterrence.”

It was to match India that the Pakistan physicist A.Q. Khan began developing nukes in the 1970s. His research, supported by massive funding, led to Pakistan’s first nuclear test in 1993, nearly 20 years after India’s first test in 1974. Now venerated in Pakistan as “father” of the Pakistan A-bomb, Khan was notorious for exchanging the secrets of nuclear technology with North Korea, Iran and others before dying in 2021.

The violence sparked last month gives testament to the hatred that simmers in Pakistan, an Islamic nation known to harbor terrorist groups. “The hostility between Pakistan and India is one of the longest-standing and most dangerous rivalries in modern history,” the website scientificorigin.com noted. “Born out of the traumatic partition of British India in 1947,” it said, the enmity “has broader implications for regional stability in South Asia, especially given that both nations are nuclear-armed.”

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All Things Nuclear

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The latest on the India-Pakistan conflict – NPR

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Nuclear war is brewing between India and Pakistan — here’s what the world needs to know

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How concerned are you about the possibility of nuclear war between India and Pakistan? Very concerned; Somewhat concerned; Not at all concerned

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Governors Ink Regional Pact to Expand Nuclear Energy in the West – Broadband Breakfast

Broadband Breakfast

Utah has also emerged as a hub of nuclear activity. Holtec International and Terrestrial Energy have signed separate MOUs to develop and potentially …

Ontario greenlights construction of Canada’s first small modular reactor | CBC News

CBC

Premier Doug Ford’s government has given Ontario Power Generation the green light to start construction on Canada’s first small modular reactor, …

New Jersey Regulators Release Request for Information on Nuclear Generation

American Public Power Association

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Who is in the Evacuate Zone if There Was an Emergency at Seabrook, NH Nuclear Plant?

97.5 WOKQ

News has been spreading on the seacoast that the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant has degrading concrete, a concern for many living nearby.

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The Kyiv Independent

… emergency work at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, “significantly more funding is required” to address the problems caus the attack

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Pakistan warns nuclear war with India is a ‘clear and present’ threat

New York Post

… nuclear war threat was “clear and present.” “Pakistan has faced such threats before and [the] region could once again be on brink of a strategic .

Pakistan minister issues nuclear war threat as it ‘downs 12 drones’ over its cities

The Independent

Pakistan minister says ‘clear and present’ threat of nuclear war … He said Pakistan has faced such threats before, and the region could once …

Statement from Ernest J. Moniz on India-Pakistan Conflict – Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

The risks of dangerous escalation and miscalculation are real, with a conventional war increasing the potential for nuclear threats, or even nuclear …

Nuclear War

NEWS

What are India and Pakistan’s military and nuclear capabilities? – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Why did India attack Pakistan? On Wednesday morning, Pakistan’s armed forces said Indian missiles struck six locations, including four places in …

India-Pakistan face-off: Nuclear expert draws up likely scenarios as war clouds gather

The Economic Times

Amid rising India-Pakistan tensions, nuclear expert Hans Kristensen has suggested that current hostilities don’t directly threaten nuclear ..

Why are two nuclear powers on the brink of war? | India-Pakistan conflict – YouTube

YouTube

How did we get to the position where two nuclear-armed countries are on the verge of a serious armed conflict? Alex Rossi takes us through the …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Scientists make ‘tiny earthquakes’ to find how close magma is to the surface in Yellowstone

MSN

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Scientists Say Underwater Volcano May Soon Erupt Off Oregon’s Coast – My Modern Met

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In My Opinion:

Both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons of mass destruction that were, fortunately, not used in this missile attack from India directed at Pakistan. Let us hope that this single strike gives pause to the two neighboring countries about further attacks that could lead to the use of nuclear weapons of mass destruction sparking the already tense risk of an international war that would inflame other nuclear war threats that are just a single nuclear missile launch away. Yes, one nuclear-armed missile from jus one of the nine nuclear-armed countries is sufficient to cause the beginning — and the end — of all future wars.

A nuclear World War III would likely be the end of humanity as we know it and most all other life on planet Earth. Why would we want to do this to ourselves and create an entirely unnecessary world-wide “armageddon -like” conflict that would be no benefit to humankind or anything else on Earth? There seems to be something collectively seriously wrong with us . . . ~llaw

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India launches missile attacks on Pakistan

Updated May 7, 20255:28 AM ET

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Aircraft debris lies in the compound of a mosque at Pampore in Pulwama district of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday.

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India launched strikes into several parts of Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled territory early Wednesday in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

In an assault India dubbed Operation Sindoor, the Indian military said it struck nine sites in “Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed.”

The Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote in a statement posted on social media that the military action was “focused and precise.” “Only known terror camps were targeted,” it said.

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Homes destroyed and 1,500 detained in Kashmir as India cracks down following attacks

Later Wednesday, the death toll in Pakistan had reached 31, The Associated Press reported, while at least seven people died in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Several Indian airlines have canceled flights to the region.

Latest tensions were triggered by April 22 attacks

Tensions have been on the rise between India and Pakistan since April 22, when gunmen killed at least 26 tourists and injured a dozen others in India-administered Kashmir. India accused Pakistan of involvement in the attack — the worst aimed at Indian civilians in more than a decade. The Indian Defense Ministry said the overnight strikes on Pakistan were in response to the Kashmir killings.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned India’s attacks and vowed that Pakistan would respond forcefully.

Local residents and members of the media examine a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday.

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“Pakistan has every right to respond forcefully to this act of war imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given,” Sharif said on social media. “The Pakistani nation and the Pakistani armed forces know how to deal with the enemy. We will never allow the enemy to succeed in their nefarious goals.”

President Trump was asked about the attack by a reporter at the White House.

“It’s a shame, we just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval,” Trump said. “They’ve been fighting for a long time,” he said. “I just hope it ends very quickly.”

The United Nations secretary-general’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said the U.N. chief called for “maximum military restraint” from both India and Pakistan, saying the world cannot afford a war between them.

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