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Nuclear Ethics? Why Pakistan Has Not Used Nuclear Weapons … Yet.

Authors :
Abdullah, Sannia
Source :
Washington Quarterly. Nov2018, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p157-173. 17p.
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

The article focuses on nuclear ethics and the repeated threats of nuclear first use by the Pakistani Army, nuclear restraint has reigned and power of mutual nuclear deterrence for the nonuse of nuclear weapons in the past India-Pakistan military crises and the 1999 Kargil War. It mentions Pakistan Army's reluctance to use nuclear weapons in the past was neither caused by deterrence nor by a nuclear taboo. It also mentions Pakistani Air Force could launch a preemptive strike with precision guided and nuclear cruise missile attack on Indian Air Force bases in Jaiselmir, India.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0163660X
Volume :
41
Issue :
4
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Washington Quarterly
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
134310220
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1558681