Summary A.Q. Khan was the world’s leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as “at least as dangerous as…
Topic: Nuclear Proliferation
Summary Following revelations in 2003 about the illicit sale of Pakistani nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, Pakistan initiated an investigation. On February 4, 2004,…
Summary Japan’s Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century is the culmination of a joint US-Japan task force assembled to examine the…
Summary This book explores the apparent contradictions behind Japan’s stated goal of nuclear disarmament and its tacit acceptance of being protected by the U.S. nuclear…
Summary On May 11, 1998, after a hiatus of more than two decades, India conducted a series of nuclear tests that signaled a critical shift…
Summary On May 11, 1998, three nuclear devices detonated under the Thar Desert in India shook the surrounding villages –and the rest of the world.…
Abstract Since independence, India’s nuclear policy has been to seek either global disarmament or equal security for all. The old nonproliferation regime was discriminatory, ratifying…
Summary This book provides an important picture of India’s nuclear intentions and capabilities at the beginning of the 21st century. Academic and governmental experts from…
Summary Nuclear power has been held out as possibly the most important source of energy for India. And the dream of a nuclear-powered India has…
Summary In May 1998, India shocked the world–and many of its own citizens–by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid…
Summary This book examines nuclear proliferation in the two major threshold countries in the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan. Both countries are at the forefront…
Summary This book is a collection of papers written by Pakistani atomic weapon and policy experts who support disarmament in South Asia. The essay topics…
Summary Tracing the nuclear and missile programs of India and Pakistan from their inception, this book places an important focus on their present state. It…
Summary This study examines the evolution of India’s approach to nuclear weapons from the country’s independence in August 1947 to its detonation of a nuclear…
