India's policy of no first use of nuclear weapons relevance to peace and security in South Asia/
P.M. Kamath
- New Delhi: Animika, 2009.
- 229 p. 22 cm.
I. INTRODUCTION 19 Emergence of Nuclear Club: Efforts to Close Membership Antarctic Treaty Outer Space Treaty Seabed Arms Control Treaty Partial Test-Ban Treaty (PTBT), 1963 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1968 Nuclear Suppliers' Group Missile Technology Control Regime Warsaw Guidelines, 1992 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), 1996 Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty Efforts to Regulate Vertical Growth of Nuclear Weapons Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 1972 Strategic Arms Limitations Talks I &. II Strategic Arms Reduction Talks INF Treaty, 1987 Test in 1974 and Hopping to 1998 2. FROM PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TO NUCLEAR WEAPON STATE; INDIAN MARCH TO NUCLEAR WEAPONISATION 50 India-Canada Nuclear Co-operation India-US Nuclear Co-operation The 1974 Test Reactions of Canada and the US to the Pokhran I The US Response Pokhran II: Nuclear Tests, 1998 Canadian Response Reaction of Nuclear Weapon and Western States China Chants Non-Proliferation Mantra Why the US? Indian Compulsions Relevance of Nuclear Weapons to India Pakistan Responds with Its Own Nuclear Tests Pakistan's Fall from Nuclear Grace Post-Tests, India Tries New Diplomacy 3. NO FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS A DOCTRINE: ITS ORIGIN, USE DURING THE COLD WAR AND THE POST-COLD WAR PERIODS 94 Early Debate in the US Cold War Era The Soviet Union US Government Response Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) Dangers of Doctrine of First Use Advantages of First Use First Use in Practice People's Republic of China End of the Cold War and Changing Perceptions on NFU Chinese Puzzle in the Post-Cold War Period US Continues to Embrace First Strike NMD System Limitations of NFU in Practice 4. INDIAN COMMITMENT TO NO FIRST USE IN THE DOCTRINE OF MINIMAL NUCLEAR DETERRENCE 128 Doctrine of Nuclear Deterrence Main Tenets of the Minimal Nuclear Deterrence (MIND) No First Use of Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Disarmament>^ Advantages Disadvantages Critique of the Doctrine Strategy Beyond Nuclear Policy 5. NO FIRST USE: ITS RELEVANCE TO SOUTH ASIAN PEACE AND SECURITY 164 Nuclear Weapons and South Asia Pakistan's Response US-India Dialogue Gains and Lessons The ICargil War of 1999 Military Mobilisation, 2002 India as a Major Power Terrorism and Nuclear Weapons South Asian Concerns Nuclear CBMs Needed 6. CONCLUSIONS 195 US as a Global Nuclear Cop India as a Reluctant Nuclear Weapon State India as a Second-Class Power Move towards International Nuclear Disarmament An International Treaty on NFU
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- India. National security -- South Asia. National security.