What just happened between India and Pakistan? After years of calm, the two neighbors are locked in an intense standoff, triggered by a deadly terror attack in Kashmir that killed 26 people. What happened? Was Pakistan responsible? And what could happen next? https://t.co/zmoBB2HENE

Pakistan is thought to have the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal. There have been several crises that led to wars, and the possibility exists for nuclear weapons to be introduced in a war growing out of historical resentments, the dispute over Kashmir (which intensified in 2019 following India’s decision to revoke much of its autonomy), or

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India and Pakistan now represent two of the world’s nine nuclear weapon states. India first tested a nuclear device in 1974, in part as a response to China’s development of nuclear weapons. India and China fought a short war in 1962 that China won easily, and the two continue to view each other warily. The border between them remains in dispute,

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