Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security write by Rajesh M. Basrur. This book was released on 2009. Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the leading authority on India's nuclear program offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India's nuclear strategy. Basrur shows that the country's nuclear culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum deterrence but sometimes drifts into a more open-ended view.
India's Nuclear Policy
India's Nuclear Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India's Nuclear Policy write by Bharat Karnad. This book was released on 2008-10-30. India's Nuclear Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state. Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.
Pakistan's Nuclear Policy
Pakistan's Nuclear Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pakistan's Nuclear Policy write by Zafar Khan. This book was released on 2014-07-17. Pakistan's Nuclear Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In May 1998, in reaction to India’s nuclear weapons tests, Pakistan tested six nuclear weapons. Following this, the country opted for a policy of minimum deterrence, and within a year Pakistan had altered its policy stance by adding the modifier of minimum ‘credible’ deterrence. This book looks at how this seemingly innocuous shift seriously impacted on Pakistan’s nuclear policy direction and whether the concept of minimum has lost its significance in the South Asian region’s changed/changing strategic environment. After providing a brief historical background exploring why and how Pakistan carried out the nuclear development program, the book questions why Pakistan could not sustain the minimum deterrence that it had conceptualized in the immediate aftermath of the 1998 test. It examines the conceptual theoretical framework of the essentials of minimum deterrence in order to question whether Pakistan’s nuclear policy remained consistent with this, as well as to discover the rudimentary factors that are responsible for the inconsistencies with regard to minimum deterrence conceived in this study. The book goes on to look at the policy options that Pakistan had after acquiring the nuclear capability, and what the rationale was for selecting minimum deterrence. The book not only highlights Pakistan deterrent force building, but also analyzes closely Pakistan’s doctrinal posture of first use option. Furthermore, it examines the policy towards arms control and disarmament, and discusses whether these individual policy orientations are consistent with the minimum deterrence. Conceptually providing a deeper understanding of Pakistan’s post-1998 nuclear policy, this book critically examines whether the minimum deterrence conceived could be sustained both at the theoretical and operational levels. It will be a useful contribution in the field of Nuclear Policy, Security Studies, Asian Politics, Proliferation/Non-Proliferation Studies, and Peace Studies. This book will be of interest to policy makers, scholars, and students of nuclear policy, nuclear proliferation and arms control related research.
Nuclear India
Nuclear India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear India write by Sanjay Badri-Maharaj. This book was released on 2021-09-15. Nuclear India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book details the evolution of India's nuclear journey, from the 1960s to the present day, the historical events leading to the 1974 nuclear test, the reluctant nuclearization that occurred thereafter and the first phases of an operational nuclear deterrent in the late 1980s.
India's Emerging Nuclear Posture
India's Emerging Nuclear Posture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India's Emerging Nuclear Posture write by Ashley J. Tellis. This book was released on 2001. India's Emerging Nuclear Posture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book brings together the many pieces of India's nuclear puzzle and the ramifications for South Asia. The author examines the choices facing India from New Delhi's point of view in order to discern which future courses of action appear most appealing to Indian security managers. He details how such choices, if acted upon, would affect U.S. strategic interests, India's neighbors, and the world."--BOOK JACKET.
