Ithaka, India and Pakistan have been at war with each other for decades, probably centuries. Hence, the nuclear standoff they are at right now.

And are you seriously telling me that any country in the world would use nuclear power in a situation like the current Israel/Lebanon one? If that is the case, why hasn't the US used nukes to simply wipe away Afghanistan? That's one way to kill Osama, right? And don't say it's not a similar situation, because it is very similar, a terrorist organization hidden within a soverign country that attacks another soverign country, which results in the victim waging war against the soverign country with the terrorist organization.

And I dare say the US/Afghanistan situation was far worse than the one that caused the Lebanon/Israel. And if the US is not justified in using nukes, why the hell would Lebanon use nukes against Israel. Not to mention that if they did the US would come to the rescue of its pet country, and cause Lebanon even more grief.

An Iran is the most powerful Islamic state right now. Pakistan is one of the poorest.