Headline-grabbing international crises understandably tendto gain public attention. Conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, SierraLeone and East Timor, and now Chechnya are hcId in the spotlightof international news and are quickly relegated to the backgroundwhen theyare resolved or have gone on for too long to benewsworthy. Likewise the open testing of nuclear warheads byIndia and Pakistan initiaIIy garnered much international discussion,and some sanctions. Since then the matter appears to have been putto rest and forgotten by the public, and has been only barelymentioned in the context of the reeent turmoil and military coup inPakistan.