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Will India nuke Pakistani cities, or go for its nuclear arsenal?

Former NSA indicates India's "massive response" will target Pak nukes

Will India nuke Pakistani cities, or go for its nuclear arsenal?
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Ajai Shukla New Delhi
Former national security advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon has shed new light on an especially worrying aspect of India’s nuclear doctrine --- New Delhi’s barely credible promise of automatic, “massive” nuclear retaliation against any adversary that targets India, or Indian forces anywhere, with weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
 
The credibility gap in this strategy of “massive retaliation”, as pointed out by critics worldwide, is that it would cause carnage in the adversary’s towns and cities but leave intact much of his nuclear arsenal. With those surviving nukes (second-strike capability), the adversary would then wreak havoc on Indian towns and cities.

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