Column note: "Nukes are unthinkable if business is good"
by Thomas L. Friedman, posted on Mon, Aug. 19, 2002 on SiliconValley.com:
BANGALORE, India - Two months ago India and Pakistan appeared headed for a nuclear war. Colin Powell, the U.S. secretary of state and a former general, played a key role in talking the two parties back from the brink. But here in India, I've discovered that there was another new, and fascinating, set of pressures that restrained the Indian government and made nuclear war, from its side, unthinkable.