Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in South Asia: A Historical Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783039103829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 310 str.

Bhumitra Chakma

Opis

This book analyses India and Pakistan s decision to go nuclear against the odds of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-based nuclear order. It reflects upon the key factors that contributed to, and the process that prompted India and Pakistan s nuclear programmes to take a military orientation, which eventually culminated in the May 1998 nuclear tests. It also explains the motivation which underscored both India and Pakistan s determination to advance nuclear postures in 1998 that appeared to be inconsistent with the post-Cold War global strategic environment. Further, this book explains why international and regional nuclear non-proliferation regimes were ineffective in preventing India and Pakistan from going nuclear."

Spis treści

Contents: Proliferation Debate, Nuclear Weapons and Security - Road to Pokhran I: From Nuclear Infrastructure Building to 'Nuclear Option' - Politics of Nuclear Infrastructure Building - Politics of 'Nuclear Option' - Toward Pokhran II: From 'Nuclear Option' to Nuclear Weapons - Evolution of an Indian Nuclear Force - Road to Chagai: Pakistan's Nuclear Programme, Its Sources and Motivations - Politics of a 'Conditional Nuclear Option' - Politics of Weapons Capability Acquisition - Regimes, Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and India - Regimes, Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Pakistan.

O autorze

The Author: Bhumitra Chakma lectures in international politics in the School of History and Politics at Adelaide University, Australia. He previously taught in International Relations Department at Dhaka University, Bangladesh.