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Pakistani perceptions and prospects of reducing the nuclear danger in South Asia / Nazir Kamal.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kamal, Nazir A., author.
- Series:
- Cooperative Monitoring Center occasional paper ; 6.
- Cooperative Monitoring Center occasional paper ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear arms control--South Asia.
- Nuclear arms control.
- Nuclear terrorism--South Asia--Prevention.
- Nuclear terrorism.
- Nuclear terrorism--Prevention.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, NM : Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, 1999.
- Summary:
- The Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests in May 1998 triggered a full-blown nuclear debate. For the first time, hard-liners, moderates, and pacifists engaged in an extensive public discussion that helped to make the people of Pakistan more sensitive to the dangers of nuclear competition. Pakistan's concerns about its conventional military inferiority, both in the present and future, and the belief that nuclear capability would deter India from exerting its superior military strength, constituted the bedrock of its perception on the nuclear issue. Ofilcial Pakistani statements, both immediately after the nuclear tests and later, have advocated restraint on the issue of nuclearization, indicating cognizance of the importance of avoiding a regional nuclear arms competition, both for security and economic reasons. This paper suggests a variety of nonweaponization and nondeployment options that would serve the security interests of India and Pakistan. Besides preventing a hair-trigger situation, these options could reduce the financial and logistical burden of ensuring the safety and security of nuclear weapons as well as lower strategic threat-perceptions.
- Notes:
- Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information.
- "January 1999."
- "SAND 98-0505/6."
- "DE00003187."
- Kamal, N.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (Sandia, viewed Apr. 16, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 68385345
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