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India's Nuclear Policy
Bharat Karnad
Foreword by Stephen P. Cohen
Book Code: C9945
ISBN: 0-275-99945-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99945-2
236 pages
Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
  • Endorsement From George H. Quester,
    Professor of Government and Politics,
    University of Maryland:     Bharat Karnad has produced a very thoughtful and comprehensive book on the nuclear weapons issues of the next century, as seen from a definitely Indian perspective. While thus reflecting the national interests and national outlook of a citizen of India, Karnad at the same time draws in a wealth of the past fifty years-foreign literature and foreign perspectives on nuclear deterrence, far beyond what all but the very most involved Indian analysts will have ever read or contemplated, and indeed far beyond what almost all foreigners will have thought through. For someone trying to master the issues of nuclear deterrence, the footnote citations in this book by themselves would amount to a goldmine of the relevant literature.
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
LC Card Number: 2008028217
LCC Class: HD9698
Dewey Class: 355
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
PSI Catalog Fall 2008.pdf
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