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DANGEROUS DETERRENT
NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CONFLICT IN SOUTH ASIA

By:

S. Paul Kapur

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Paperback

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0804755507

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 March, 2007

Series:

Studies in Asian Security

Pages:

277

Description:

This book examines the impact of nuclear arms proliferation on the security environment of South Asia. and on the behavior of new nuclear states elsewhere in the world.

Synopsis:

Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening to raise the cost of war astronomically, nuclear weapons make armed conflict in South Asia extremely unlikely. Pessimistic scholars maintain that nuclear weapons make the subcontinent war-prone, because of technological, political, and organizational problems. This book argues that nuclear weapons have destabilized the subcontinent, principally because of their interaction with India and Pakistan's territorial preferences and relative military capabilities. These findings challenge both optimistic and pessimistic conventional wisdom and have implications beyond South Asia.

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