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As geopolitical tensions rise in nuclear-armed states, scientists are modelling the global impact of nuclear war. As geopolitical tensions rise in nuclear-armed states, scientists are modelling the global impact of nuclear war., Author(s): Alexandra Witze Author Affiliations: How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet India tests its Agni-5 rocket in 2013, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Credit: [...]

India says its 'no first use' nuclear policy could change. Nature examines what that means for the country's fraught relationship with Pakistan. India says its 'no first use' nuclear policy could change. Nature examines what that means for the country's fraught relationship with Pakistan., Author(s): Priyanka Pulla Author Affiliations: India-Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead? India's defence minister Rajnath Singh (left) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan (right). [see PDF for image] Credit: [...]

The reasons behind India's nuclear detonation in May 1998 are explored. Two competing world views representing post-colonial India's nationalist identity, its strategic culture and sources of insecurities under both Congress and BJP governments, which have influenced the discourse of India's national security and nuclearisation policies, are studied.

India in 2006 has taken great positive strides in improving its economy and also in becoming a big power in the international arena. India's strategic partnership with the United States gives it a greater influence on important international political, economic and security issues, and its improved political cooperation with Beijing has ensured that the expanding international competition for energy resources and trading markets remain demilitarized.

India finalized its nuclear command structure and formalized its nuclear doctrine in January 2003, nearly five years after coming out of the nuclear closet and openly declaring itself as a nuclear-weapon state. While a clearly enunciated nuclear doctrine and command structure are seen by some as essential in enhancing regional stability and assuaging the concerns of the international community, its implications for the civil-military relations in India remain far from clear. Strategic imperatives and political pressures concerning civil-military relations seem to be pulling Indian nuclear policy in opposite directions. This article examines Indian nuclear doctrine and command structure with an attempt to decipher its implications for the future of civil-military relations in India with respect to the management of its nuclear arsenal. Keywords: India; nuclear proliferation; civil-military relations; nuclear doctrine

India's nuclear doctrine and command structure would enhance regional stability and assure the international community but at the operational level it continues to and would have to work harder to achieve its nuclear policy goals. However, the simple coherence and elegance of nuclear deterrence theory begins to break down, which is a challenge that India faces as it tries to evolve into a 'nuclear weapon state'.

In March 2005, Condoleezza Rice visited India for the first time as secretary of state. Her visit, though not widely noticed in the American press, received a great deal of [...]

This article presents a conceptual and historical overview of confidence- and security-building measures between India and Pakistan in order to provide a context in which to evaluate prospects for the [...]

The nuclear weapons developments involving sea-based or air-deliverable weapons that directly utilize Indian Ocean region lying between Middle East and East Asia, encompassing 51 nations is discussed. The armaments process can enhance the security of a country but injurious to international order and security, and Indian Ocean region due to its combination of oil, Islam and likely rise of mutual rivalry will feature prominently in geopolitics.

Some of the aspects of India's national security organization have been questioned since the latest crisis in Kashmir. The country's civilian and military authorities, and their reactions to Pakistani actions are discussed.

In the mid-1990s, a unique confluence of activists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and governments, unprecedented in the history of arms control, took shape as an international movement to ban antipersonnel (AP) [...]

Although events such as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis sparked global fear of nuclear war, careful diplomacy between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the emergence of [...]

The latest conflict between India and Pakistan centered on the disputed Kashmir border, and an attack on India's parliament by terrorists, allegedly based in Pakistan. Tensions remained high until January 2002. The nuclear arsenals and doctrines of both countries are discussed.

This article examines how the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and other global arms control architecture interact with India after its 1998 nuclear tests and the significant role they play in maintaining international stability, highlighting India's evolving position with regard to the treaty, the crucial role it has played in the nuclear arms control regime and bringing stability to South Asia; the author suggests grave implications for global peace and stability if this treaty is discarded, and claims that the George W. Bush administration has either disregarded or failed to throughly consider these implications when it decided to pursue the National Missile Defense and reject the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Issues include the historical contexts of these arms control agreements and Indo-US negotiations with regard to arms control treaties.

Shampa Biswas (*) Reflecting on the colonial traces that remain in the current conduct and study of global politics, Roxanne Doty expresses her frustrations with 'the very definition of the [...]

Developments in South Asia during 1999 reminded the world that the nuclear tests undertaken in 1998 by India and Pakistan had ominously increased the danger of nuclear conflict. Pakistani occupation [...]

The government of India has let it be know that it is seriously undertaking a nuclear weapons program, however there is little agreement as to what shape this program will take. Specific strategies and weapons are discussed.

The nuclear weapons capabilities of India and Pakistan have not developed as rapidly as observers had anticipated. Pakistan's development has been the more rapid of the two, while India's nuclear plans are on a larger scale.

India has announced a moratorium on nuclear tests and declared its intention of signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. However, there is concern in the country that Pakistan will use this opportunity to gain ballistic missile superiority.

When the Indian prime minister A. B. Vajpayee sought to justify his country's nuclear tests last year in a personal letter to President Clinton, he must have appreciated that a [...]

The need to develop and introduce nuclear weapons for counteracting foreign aggression is one of the strongest factors which prompted India to undertake successive nuclear tests in May 1998. Such a decision by the Indian government reflects the country's long-waged war against Pakistan. The move may also be seen as an attempt by the Bharatya Janata Party (NJP) to dominate India's political landscape. Experts believe India would continue to enhance its nuclear weaponry in order to support its military strategies for the future.

On May 18, one week after India's first series of nuclear tests, a group of Indian scientists issued a statement expressing their 'deep dismay and unhappiness' and arguing that exploding [...]

The nuclear arms tests conducted by India and Pakistan have generated diverging opinions from among several observers. Henri Kissinger and Muhammad Heikal both expressed their support of the nuclear tests and stressed the strategic necessity of conducting such tests. The trend toward the acceptance of nuclear weaponry should not change Japan's longtime position on the subject. Instead, it should continue to abide by its policy of abjuring nuclear weaponry.

A whole host of reasons led India to test five nuclear weapons in May 1998, an action which prompted Pakistan to follow suit some two weeks later. These series of tests took place at a time of unprecedented economic turbulence, and political and strategic flux in Asia. The tests might potentially lead to the geopolitical map of post-Cold War Asia being redrawn. This article examines the implications of India's nuclear tests for the future of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, nuclear deterrence, Sino-Indian rivalry for power and influence in the twenty-first century, and the changing balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region., There is nothing quite like a big bang to focus minds, shatter prevalent myths and draw the attention of the whole world. With three big bangs on the afternoon of [...]

India and Pakistan's nuclear tests were meet with much enthusiasm in both countries. However, for the international community, the effects of these tests are unclear and it is struggling to respond. The immediate concern in the region is to prevent a nuclear war between these countries. Analysts also worry about the adverse effects of sanctions imposed on these states after they conducted nuclear tests.

Seismograph all over the world jumped on May 11, but not on the 13th. INDIA'S NUCLEAR TESTS CAUGHT THE international community off guard. This has caused some commentators to question [...]