Associate Fellow, IDSA, Mr A Vinod Kumar’s analytical report titled ‘Terror and nuclear confrontation’, was published in ‘Asia Times’ on February 24, 2012.
It is rarely that the man on the street relates to the high politics of nuclear weapons and diplomacy; and rarely so for people in a third country to be affected by politics of two states in another region. Earlier this month, an elite Delhi neighborhood witnessed what could be termed as a sideshow of a raging crisis in West Asia. The bombing of the Israeli embassy vehicle in Delhi, described as a terror incident by the Indian government, is increasingly being seen as a spill-over of the West Asian turmoil, aggravated by Iran’s purported nuclear weapon plans.