Summary Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to…
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Summary The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence is an attempt to provide a complete picture of the dynamics of South Asian nuclearization. It covers…
Summary Whither South Asia? This is not a question that has troubled many Americans, although the number has been growing over the last few years.…
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…
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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 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…
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.…
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,…
