Inside nuclear South Asia / edited by Scott D. Sagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sagan, Scott Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--South Asia.

Nuclear weapons.

South Asia--Military policy.

South Asia.

South Asia--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Security Studies, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an analytical account of the causes and dangerous consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.

"Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organizations. Despite some attempts at rapprochement in the intervening years, a new standoff between the two countries was precipitated when India accused Lashkar-e-Taiba of being behind the Mumbai attacks late last year. The relentlessness of the confrontations between these two nations makes Inside Nuclear South Asia a must read for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of the spread of nuclear weapons in South Asia and the potential consequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : inside nuclear South Asia / Scott D. Sagan

The BJP and the bomb / Kanti Bajpai

Testing theories of proliferation in South Asia / Karthika Sasikumar and Christopher Way

Contra-proliferation : the Indian bomb and nuclear developmentalism / Itty Abraham

Pride, prejudice, and Prithvis : strategic weapons behavior in South Asia / Vipin Narang

Revisionist ambitions, conventional capabilities, and nuclear instability : why nuclear South Asia is not like Cold War Europe / S. Paul Kapur

The evolution of Pakistani and Indian nuclear doctrines / Scott D. Sagan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804772419

080477241X

OCLC:

609855926