One month after the Mumbai killings, the terror groups, it seems, are achieving some of their aims. Tension between India and Pakistan is high. Pakistan is moving troops away from its western border with Afghanistan, where they are deployed to fight Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents. A similar scenario followed the 2001 attacks on the Indian parliament which brought the two countries close to all-out war. The Mumbai attacks were odious, but there must be a public safety mechanism that stops such incidents jump-starting India and Pakistan towards a nuclear war. Just back-off both of you, because with tension also rising between North and South Korea, we’re heading for a the scenario that begins my novel, The Third World War.