Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia

An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics in contrast to other books this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons explains how the bombs are used as politico-strategic assets rather than pure battlefield weapons and how India and Pakistan utilise them for politico-strategic purposes in an extremely complex and competitive South Asian strategic landscape. Written by a group of perceptive observers of South Asia this volume evaluates the current state of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrents the challenges that the two countries confront in building their nuclear forces the post-test nuclear doctrines of the two strategic rivals the implications of Indo-Pakistani politics for regional cooperation the role of two systemic actors (USA and China) in the region's nuclear politics and the critical issues of confidence-building and nuclear arms control.