As if everything that has happened in the world lately is not enough, now it appears that India and Pakistan, who have been at war for ages, have decided that there is only one option left – a nuclear assault on their enemy.

This threat appears to be so serious, that the United States is offering anyone American living in either country a free ticket home, our Government is sending in every peace negotiator we can muster – and scientists have begun to estimate the destruction a nuclear war will cause to the land and the people if those bombs are dropped.

Me? I have to say that I am not surprised at all that we have come to this – especially now. The fear of a nuclear war has been hanging over our heads ever since they made the first warhead. At least once in our lives, we have dreamt about a nuclear war, thought about it, or feared it might happen. Even Hollywood has cashed in on the fear of a nuclear war with the 1980s made-for-TV drama The Day After – and one of this summer’s most recent movies – The Sum Of All Fears – which could not be more appropriately titled – or be released at a worse time.

To be honest, I of course hope to God that a nuclear war will not come to reality. Besides the obvious fact that tens millions of people would be killed and that parts of this Earth would become uninhabitable for years – my real fear lies in the scary thought that if even one nuclear missile is detonated in this world – it will send an invitation to anyone with a bomb and an ax to grind a reason to fire it – including Osama Bin Laden. In other words, I fear that Pakistan and India’s war will result in the obliteration of a lot more places then just those two countries.

And even if other missiles are not launched and only India and Pakistan are destroyed – the aftermath of the attacks will cause damage to us in so many other ways. For one thing, what do you think a nuclear war would do to the stock market? And worse then that – what do you think the radioactive fallout will do to us when the wind carries it here?

Even now as tensions between the two countries heat up and each country has close to one million troops at their respective boarders, Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, said that he has no intentions to start a war with India, but went on to say that, “If war is imposed on us, we will defend ourselves with the utmost resolution.”

Stay tuned – and pray.