Hot Takes: Pakistan’s MIRV-capable Ababeel Missile
Pakistan’s Ababeel: Neither a Surprise, Nor a Threat By Rabia Akhtar This week, Pakistan successfully conducted the first ever test of its new medium-range, surface-to-surface […]
Sitakanta Mishra
Dr Sitakanta Mishra is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Cooperative Management Centre of the Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi and Associate Editor of the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, New Delhi.
Articles by Sitakanta Mishra
SAV Review Series: Learning from the U.S. Pursuit of Counterforce and MIRVs
Review of “The Geopolitical Origins of U.S. Hard-Target-Kill Counterforce Capabilities and MIRVs” by Brendan Rittenhouse Green and Austin Long in The Lure and Pitfalls of […]
Parity Syndrome and Strategic Blunder Tango: Critique of A Normal Nuclear Pakistan
Nuclear proliferation is a form of national suicide that Pakistan committed a few decades ago. It expects now to be forgiven, and treated as a […]
AAP’s Nuclear Policy: Beyond Bijli-Paani-Bhrashtachar?
The three prominent Indian political parties – Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) – have explicably […]
Counter-Point: The Perception Differential
Point, Counter-Point: Nuclear Weapons – Status or Security? Earlier in this series: The South Asian Nuclear Trajectory – From Reluctance to Readiness *** The western narrative […]
Point, Counter-Point: … STABILIZING* (T&C Apply)
Point, Counter-Point: Sea-based deterrence Earlier in this series: Troublesome Trajectories for Minimalist Strategy *** Ever since 1998, India and Pakistan have been in the process of […]
Contours of India’s Nuke Politics
During the last half-decade, the aptness of India’s nuclear doctrine has been mused, in both academic and political circles. In March 2011, senior BJP leader […]
Point, Counter-Point: ‘Overlooking’ Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers
Point, Counter-Point: A Four Part Series The Wisest Choice, by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Normalizing Nuclear Pakistan, by Rabia Akhtar After the Euphoria? by Amina Afzal Overlooking’ Pakistan’s Nuclear […]
Crisis Perception and Diplomacy Mismatch in South Asia
Taking inkling from Michael Krepon’s views in Arms Control Wonk, I wish to add the missile aspect to his assertion: “The dynamism of nuclear weapon […]
Misgivings on India’s Non-Proliferation Record a Folly
When India is aspiring for Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership, and harmonizing its export control rules with global norms, sporadic allegations have been made against […]