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Dangerous Deterrent

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia

By: S. Paul Kapur

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Dangerous Deterrent

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia

By: S. Paul Kapur

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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280

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1503626350

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9781503626355

India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia

By: Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur

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India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia

By: Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur

In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--Cubierta.

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Columbia University Press

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0231143753

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9780231143752