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Pakistan followed suit, and the nuclear-armed neighbors poised for war.

It's an idyllic scene, but just out of sight, hidden behind high limestone cliffs, the US military is poised for war.

The two nations have been poised for war since a deadly suicide attack on the Indian Parliament last month that India attributed to Pakistani-based extremists.

In contrast, India and Pakistan have hundreds of thousands of troops poised for war along their border who have been engaged in fierce artillery duels for two weeks.

The Americans, backed by Britain and more than half the 25 countries of Europe that are in the European Union or soon to join it, seemed poised for war.

Senior officials here in India, poised for war with Pakistan, clustered around televisions tonight to watch Pakistan's military ruler deliver a crucial speech -- carried live here on several stations -- but decided to postpone any official reaction until Sunday.

L'Engle said, "It was during that decade when we were poised for nuclear war.

Witness post-apartheid South Africa, which was poised for civil war.

BAGHDAD — As the United States prepares to withdraw its troops from Iraq by year's end, senior American and Iraqi officials are expressing growing concern that Al Qaeda's offshoot here, which just a few years ago waged a debilitating insurgency that plunged the country into a civil war, is poised for a deadly resurgence.

This valley is disputed territory, and the two nuclear-armed rivals are poised for what could be their fourth war in 53 years.

Highlights include the Tate Baby House dating from 1760, passed down over five or six generations, complete with Robert Adam paneling and a lying-in room for a pregnant doll, as well as a house modelled on the 1930s St Helier Estate, inhabited by a second world war-era family poised for an air raid, complete with miniature gas masks, ration books and torches for the blackouts.