Indo-Pak Nuclear Dynamics: Why Cold War Lessons May Not Apply
The Cold War saw a series of serious efforts towards nuclear arms control. Cold War rivals—the Soviet Union and the United States—conceived the principles of […]
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Pakistan’s Naval Nuclear Ambitions: Concerns and Challenges
On March 29, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed in a press release that Pakistan had conducted another test of the Babur-3 nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise […]
Sri Lanka Under the Nuclear Shadow
While many are familiar with the impact of nuclearization of relations between India and Pakistan, there is less familiarity with its impact on South Asia’s […]
SAV Review: Evaluating the Normative Utility of the NWPT in South Asia
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, through its Doomsday Clock—the metaphorical clock whose hour hand is set to midnight, representing nuclear armageddon—has assessed the current […]
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 […]
India’s Reservations About Voluntary Reporting of Civilian Plutonium Stocks
The canvas of global nuclear issues is immense, encompassing three parallel and significant subsets: deterrence, nonproliferation, and nuclear security. However, in the last year or […]
Prospects for Civilian Plutonium Management in Pakistan and South Asia
Over the past three decades, the progressive accretion of nonproliferation agreements has led to greater transparency on nuclear materials worldwide. This has enabled the introduction […]
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 […]
Making India’s Nuclear Deterrence Credible: The Centrality of Escalation Control and Dominance
The debate on the nuclear threat that India poses to deter Pakistan’s first use of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) is ongoing. Traditionalists in New Delhi […]
The Cold Start Doctrine and India’s Compellence Woes
Yet again, South Asia watchers are concerned about the growing conflagration between India and Pakistan, as evidenced by constant ceasefire violations along the Line of […]