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Managing India's nuclear forces / Verghese Koithara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1940- Koithara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear arms control--India.
- Nuclear arms control.
- Nuclear weapons--India.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Strategic forces--India.
- Strategic forces.
- India--Military policy.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- India is now enmeshed in the deterrence game-actively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile materials and strategic technologies. In order to deal with these developments safely and wisely, the nation needs a much more sophisticated and multidisciplinary understanding of the strategic, technological, operational, and cost issues involved in nuclear matters. In this important book, Indian strategic analyst Verghese Koithara explains and evaluates India's nuclear force management,
- Contents:
- Strategic considerations
- The challenge of deterrence
- A unique nuclear path
- The triad
- Nuclear hardware
- Hardware to forces
- Operational level management
- India's nuclear force management system
- Nuclear strategy
- Development of nuclear forces
- The 'use' of nuclear forces
- The many-faceted challenge.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582638
- 9781280487408
- 1280487402
- 9780815722670
- 0815722672
- OCLC:
- 793206890
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