Summary For a variety of political and organizational reasons, India has a nuclear force management system that is largely incapable of handling the country’s needs.…
Topic: Nuclear Proliferation
Summary Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an…
Abstract Authored by scientists from both sides of the Pakistan-India divide, ‘Confronting the Bomb’ fearlessly explores tabooed, but urgent, nuclear issues. Concerned citizens, policy makers,…
Summary From the publisher: In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall…
Summary Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China’s gradual move to…
Summary Based on newly released material (“How much the Chinese elected to publish truly surprised us,” the authors remark in the preface), this important work…
Abstract This article published by The Brookings Institution examines how Pyongyang’s 2013 nuclear test affects North Korea’s nuclear weapon and missile capability, policymakers in Japan…
Summary Includes chapters on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. From the publisher: More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is…
Summary Chapters on Pakistan, Taiwan, and South Korea. From the publisher: The intensification of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises has created new fears…
Summary More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic…
Abstract This book considers the nuclear futures of India and Pakistan, respectively. Noting the multiplicity of actors affecting India’s future nuclear posture, Basrur and Cohen…
From the publisher: Global power is shifting to Asia. The U.S. military is leading an American “pivot” to the Indo-Pacific region. Asian “theaters” attract the…
Summary Religion, nationalism, ethnicity, economics, and geopolitics all are important in explaining Iran’s goals and tactics in its relationship with the outside world, as are…
