Nuclear weapons proliferation in the Indian subcontinent
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Nuclear weapons proliferation in the Indian subcontinent
（St. Antony's/Macmillan series）
Macmillan, 1991
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Includes bibliography and index
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This book examines nuclear proliferation in the two major threshold countries in the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan. Both countries are at the forefront of international concern over weapons proliferation for being involved in nuclear activities which could provide the capability to produce nuclear weapons, and for having retained the political and diplomatic option to do so. The subject is tackled from an international relations viewpoint. It looks at the issue of proliferation in terms of the evolution in the two countries' perception of national, regional, and international security imperatives. Each country's civil nuclear programme and its arms control diplomacy is also examined to see whether they facilitate or inhibit a decision to proliferation, and it what way. The study concludes that while India and Pakistan are strongly determined to retain their nuclear option, and that they are both engaged in perfectioning this option, neither country is yet committed to a weapons programme. thus there is a nuclear stalemate in the subcontinent and any change of policy would take into consideration complex political, strategic, economic, and diplomatic interests.
These interests have so far discouraged nuclear proliferation. The future depends on national, regional and international stability on the one hand, and global perceptions of nuclear deterrence and trends in the nuclear arms race and disarmament on the other.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Political background of the Indian subcontinent: the role of the new states in the international system
- the Indian subcontinent - political-strategic legacies
- freedom and fragmentation
- non-alligned vs. alliance - formulation of defence and foreign policy
- subcontinental wras - the use of force as a political alternative. Part 2 The politics of the nuclear weapons issue in India: the early years - Nehru's autocratic control
- 1964-1968 - post-Nehru nuclear debate
- the 1974 nuclear test - making the option visible
- the post-Pokhran nuclear issue. Part 3 Pakistan - the politics of the nuclear issue: the nuclear weapon issue before 1971
- 1971-1977 - the nuclear issue during Bhutto's era
- the nuclear issue under Zia's rule. Part 4 India's nuclear development: first phase - establishment of a nuclear power industry
- second phase - progression towards the May 1974 test
- third phase - perfecting the weapons option
- conclusion. Part 5 Pakistan's nuclear development: nuclear power - an energy alternative
- reprocessing and enrichment - progression towards a weapons option. Part 6 India's changing views of arms control: PTBT diplomacy
- India and the NPT
- India and the South Asia nuclear weapon free zone. Part 7 Pakistan and nuclear arms control: Pakistan and the PTBT
- Pakistan and the NPT
- initiative on the South Asia NWFZ. Part 8 India's choice - nuclear option vs. nuclear weapons: India's weapons force versus the superpowers
- the effect on relations with the regional and non-alligned countries
- practical constraints on the development of a nuclear force. Part 9 Pakistan's choice - nuclear option vs, nuclear weapons: the politics of the nuclear option
- the politics of a Pakistani nuclear weapons.
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