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**India Conflict Scenario 2/2**Extinction Fox, Reuters, Health and Science Editor ‘08 (Maggie, April 8, Planet Ark “India-Pakistan Nuclear War Would Cause Ozone Hole” http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47829/story.htm 7/10/11 BLG) Fires from burning cities would send 5 million metric tonnes of soot or more into the lowest part of Earth's atmosphere known as the troposphere, and heat from the sun would carry these blackened particles into the stratosphere, the team at the University of Colorado reported. "The sunlight really heats it up and sends it up to the top of the stratosphere," said Michael Mills of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, who chose India and Pakistan as one of several possible examples. Up there, the soot would absorb radiation from the sun and heat surrounding gases, causing chemical reactions that break down ozone. "We find column ozone losses in excess of 20 percent globally, 25 percent to 45 percent at midlatitudes, and 50 percent to 70 percent at northern high latitudes persisting for five years, with substantial losses continuing for five additional years," Mills' team wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This would let in enough ultraviolet radiation to cause cancer, damage eyes and skin, damage crops and other plants and injure animals.
"Certainly there is a growing number of large nuclear-armed states that have a growing number of weapons. This could be typical of what you might see," Mills said in a telephone interview. SMOKE IS KEY
"The smoke is the key and it is coming from these firestorms that build up actually several hours after the explosions," he said. "We are talking about modern megacities that have a lot of material in them that would burn. We saw these kinds of megafires in World War Two in Dresden and Tokyo. The difference is we are talking about a large number of cities that would be bombed within a few days." Nothing natural could create this much black smoke in the same way, Mill noted. Volcanic ash, dust and smoke is of a different nature, for example, and forest fires are not big or hot enough. The University of Colorado's Brian Toon, who also worked on the study, said the damage to the ozone layer would be worse than what has been predicted by "nuclear winter" and "ultraviolet spring" scenarios.
Mills noted the United States is currently working on a controversial deal that would give India access to US nuclear fuel and equipment for the first time in 30 years even though India refused to join nonproliferation agreements. Nonproliferation advocates believe it undermines the global system designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. India – UniquenessThere is reverse brain drain in India – better opportunities Chopra, freelance reporter, 11 (Anuj, July 10, The National, “India Reverses its Brain Drain”, http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/economics/india-reverses-its-brain-drain) PG But in 2008, he decided to go against the tide. With his wife and children, he returned to India and settled in Gurgaon, the fastest-developing city in northern India, where roads are cratered with potholes, power cuts are frequent and setting up a business can seem as hard as launching a lunar mission. But he had returned to a new India, which despite all its ills, is fast emerging as a promised land for entrepreneurs. "In India, there is opportunity everywhere," Mr Jain, 42, who is the managing director of Aamod resorts, a chain of boutique hotels and townships, told The Economic Times newspaper last month as part of its new survey on brain drain. "Building a resort? I couldn't have done that in UK." Many Indian-born executives such as Mr Jain are returning home, trading their dream of conquering Wall Street or Silicon Valley for working in Gurgaon or Mumbai. Last year, about 60,000 professionals from around the world returned to India, according to the recruitment advisory firm Heidrick & Struggles. The study, which said the trend was likely to grow this year, was a joint project with The Economic Times. It said 82 per cent of non-resident Indians (NRIs) and people of Indian origin living elsewhere were willing to move to India if suitable opportunities came their way. There is reverse brain drain in India – better jobs and economy Chopra, freelance reporter, 11 (Anuj, July 10, The National, “India Reverses its Brain Drain”, http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/economics/india-reverses-its-brain-drain) PG The trend is part of a "brain gain" phenomenon that is accelerating as India's economy expands rapidly, salaries grow annually in double digits, and there are opportunities galore to make an impact faster than in Western economies still reeling from the global downturn and EU debt crisis. Rajiv Inamdar, a director at Heidrick & Struggles, says that given the poor jobs market in the West, it is the new opportunities spawned by India's dynamic economy that are luring people back. Analysts say India has been less affected by the global downturn because the economy is less dependent on exports. Compared with Western economies, the recovery in India has been much faster. "Today, we in India are experiencing the benefits of the reverse flow of income, investment and expertise from the global Indian diaspora," Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, said in December. "We are drawing on the global brain bank of people of Indian origin worldwide." Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research associate at Harvard Law School, said last year that more than 100,000 Indians who had gone abroad in search of jobs would move back to India in the next half decade. He said a similar trend would be seen among Chinese executives who were graduates of US universities.
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