Summary The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often…
Country or Region: Pakistan
India-based scholars provide a counterpoint to Mark Fitzpatrick’s article on “nuclear rehabilitation” with Pakistan. From the publisher: Fitzpatrick seems to acknowledge all the problems with nuclear…
Summary The arrest and public confession of Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in 2004 confirmed the existence of a global proliferation network which…
Summary Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal – the fastest growing in the world – raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the scale of the Cold…
Summary This report examines the views of India and Pakistan on the significance of Pakistan’s foray into the Kargil-Dras sector in a limited war that…
From the publisher: Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink…
From the publisher: This article examines the possibility of limited war between India and Pakistan, and the potential of such a conflict triggering a nuclear war.…
From the publisher: Existing nuclear deterrence scholarship evinces a pervasive “existential bias,” assuming that once a state merely possesses nuclear weapons, it should be able to…
Abstract This article tempers the argument of deterrence optimists, who make the case that nuclear deterrence has maintained the peace between regional nuclear rivals. In…
From the publisher: This book, completed just before Pakistani President Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in November 2007, reflects research that the Nonproliferation Policy…
From the publisher: Scholars attribute conventional violence in a nuclear South Asia to a phenomenon known as the “stability/instability paradox.” According to this paradox, the risk…
From the publisher: 2011 was a watershed for nuclear power. In March, all eyes focused on Japan, where the world’s third severe accident at a nuclear…
Abstract An examination of the onset, evolution, and termination of the 1999 and 2001–02 crises between India and Pakistan suggests that nuclear deterrence is robust…
From the publisher: One of the most remarkable attributes of India as an independent state has been its reticence to use force as an instrument of…
From the publisher: Landau Network, an Arms Control Italian institution that regularly is consulted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, proposed to organize a visit…
