The leaders of India and Pakistan do not want to go to war because they understand the dangers of such a confrontation and the desirability of a nuclear disaster, US magazine Foreign Policy said.
The magazine on international issues said that two words in the hearts of all people in India and Pakistan are "nuclear weapons."
In the opinion of the American journalist and researcher Lawrence Pintak in an article published by the magazine that the words should also be hesitant in the minds of officials in Washington with the growing possibility of a military confrontation between the nuclear neighbors.
Mutual calm
Meanwhile, the two countries expressed their readiness to calm down, as Pakistan called on its neighbor to dialogue, and India pledged restraint.
Pakistani Prime Minister Amran Khan has warned that things with India are out of control because of poor calculations and said the two countries should cooperate and dialogue to resolve their differences.
Foreign Policy warns of the possibility of a nuclear war between New Delhi and Islamabad, adding that the possibility of avoiding such a disaster lies in the efforts of "leaders of both countries" in good faith.
Rare events fall
No matter what the claims of New Delhi and Islamabad of dropping warplanes for either of them, says Lawrence Pintak, the two nuclear states have fought the blows.
The writer says in his article that something of the past days did not happen between the two countries for half a century. "All this tension happened against the backdrop of the Indian election campaign."
Elections are one of the motives
From Lawrence Pintak's point of view, intimidation from an external threat is usually good for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Moody, who "wants to flex his muscles."
But the writer sees it as "bad news." The good news is that the leaders of the two countries - both civilian and military - are still calm.
Pintak refers to those he describes as surprised by the prospect of a clash with nuclear weapons, saying that the population of Pakistan is less than 200 million people, and India is one billion and three hundred million people.
Indian army forces are four times more than Pakistani troops. The writer concludes that the prospects of Pakistan's response to a large-scale Indian invasion without resorting to the use of tactical nuclear weapons remain small, even nonexistent.