It happens when you let 2 countries that shouldn’t have nuclear warheads act as teenagers.
The challenge for India and Pakistan now is to contain the escalation before things get completely out of control.
It is almost unprecedented for two nuclear-armed countries to carry out air strikes into each other’s territories.
“We are in uncharted waters,” Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the US and adviser to three Pakistani prime ministers, told me late on Tuesday.
An Indian defense analyst believes Indian security forces will now have to be prepared for a “full spectrum of conflict”.