The Case for Nuclear Disarmament in South Asia
In the current global strategic environment, nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan consider nuclear deterrence to be a peace guarantor in South Asia, largely due to […]
Category: FMCT
Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium: India’s Case
Since India and Pakistan became nuclear-armed powers in 1998, the contentious and escalatory dynamics between these two rivals have been a point of concern not […]
Voluntary Information Sharing on Civilian Plutonium: A Perspective from Pakistan
In its broadest sense, transparency refers to disclosing information that was earlier kept classified. In practice, transparency regarding the management of nuclear materials varies for […]
The Peril of Admitting an NPT-Outlier to the NSG
Nuclear proliferation has been a concern since the dawn of the nuclear age. The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was created in the mid-1970s to address proliferation concerns […]
Mainstreaming the Global Nuclear Order
Non-proliferation concerns in contemporary international politics have emerged as a tool to achieve foreign policy objectives by leaders of the so-called global nuclear order. The […]
Indian MTCR Membership: Diplomatic Solution or Destabilizing Mistake?
On September 29, events marked the beginning of a harsh dispute between India and Italy, as Rome decided to block India’s bid for entry into the […]
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 […]
A Pakistani’s response to “A Normal Nuclear Pakistan”
According to “A Normal Nuclear Pakistan,” a recent report co-authored by Michael Krepon and Toby Dalton, Pakistan could have close to 350 nuclear weapons by […]
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Policy: The Case for Self-Restraint
The recent Iranian nuclear deal has been termed a major breakthrough by experts of nuclear nonproliferation issues. The deal is merely an agreed political framework […]
Reactors, Reprocessing & Centrifuges: India’s Enduring Embrace of Fissile Material
India has traditionally relied on plutonium for developing nuclear weapons – which was used in its Pokhran-I 1974 test and in the Pokhran-II tests conducted […]