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India-Pakistan
Two radar screens. One in Rawalpindi. One in Delhi. Both watching the same sky.
In May 2025, India and Pakistan came closer to nuclear war than any nations since the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is the story of those four days—and the seventy-eight years that led to them.
From a British lawyer who drew a border in five weeks without ever visiting India, to the trains that crossed that border carrying corpses. From 93,000 prisoners of war surrendering in the largest military capitulation since World War II, to a scientist who stole centrifuge blueprints and built his nation a bomb. From the tourist bus attacked on a mountain road in Kashmir, to the missiles that flew in response.
1.5 billion people live in the space between those two radar screens. This is their story.
Sources include CSIS, Carnegie Endowment, Stimson Center, Observer Research Foundation, ISSI Islamabad, the 1947 Partition Archive, and the Washington Post. Native language reporting from Aaj Tak, TV9 Hindi, and Amar Ujala in India; Express Urdu, Nawa-i-Waqt, and Jang in Pakistan.
This episode was produced using a multi-model AI pipeline: Claude for primary research and writing, Grok for real-time social media intelligence, Gemini Pro for structural review, and OpenAI for independent bias and logic auditing. Human editorial oversight throughout.
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By Proxima.EarthTwo radar screens. One in Rawalpindi. One in Delhi. Both watching the same sky.
In May 2025, India and Pakistan came closer to nuclear war than any nations since the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is the story of those four days—and the seventy-eight years that led to them.
From a British lawyer who drew a border in five weeks without ever visiting India, to the trains that crossed that border carrying corpses. From 93,000 prisoners of war surrendering in the largest military capitulation since World War II, to a scientist who stole centrifuge blueprints and built his nation a bomb. From the tourist bus attacked on a mountain road in Kashmir, to the missiles that flew in response.
1.5 billion people live in the space between those two radar screens. This is their story.
Sources include CSIS, Carnegie Endowment, Stimson Center, Observer Research Foundation, ISSI Islamabad, the 1947 Partition Archive, and the Washington Post. Native language reporting from Aaj Tak, TV9 Hindi, and Amar Ujala in India; Express Urdu, Nawa-i-Waqt, and Jang in Pakistan.
This episode was produced using a multi-model AI pipeline: Claude for primary research and writing, Grok for real-time social media intelligence, Gemini Pro for structural review, and OpenAI for independent bias and logic auditing. Human editorial oversight throughout.