Bharat Karnad

India's Nuclear Policy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state. Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780275999469
• Artikelnr.: 38212114

Autorenporträt

Bharat Karnad is Research Professor in National Security Studies at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. He was a Member of the (First) National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council, Government of India, Member of the Nuclear Doctrine Drafting Group and Adviser on Defense Expenditure to the Finance Commission, India. He is the author of Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy, now in its second edition (2002, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 New Attractions of the Bomb: The Nuclearized International Milieu
Chapter 2 Laying the Foundation: Indias Nuclear and Missile Capabilities
and Minimum Deterrence Concept, 1947-1998 Chapter 3 Maturing Nuclear and
Missile Capabilities and Minimum Credible Deterrence Strategy, Post-1998
Chapter 4 Southern Asia: Limited War, Potential Nuclear Crises, India-US
Nuclear Deal