BOMB AND STRATEGY: THE NUCLEAR DILEMMAS IN SOUTH ASIA ∗

Kanwal Gurmeet , “India’s Nuclear Force Structure”, St ategic Analysis, N. Delhi, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, Sept. 2000, p. 1045.

See Banerjee Jyotirmoy , “Pokhran II-Fallout and Implications”, World Affairs, N. Delhi, vol. 3, No. 3, July-Sept. 1999, p. 125.

Albright David , “A Proliferation Primer”, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1993, p. 16; Botzian Rudolf , “Die indischen and pakistanischen Nukleartests: bisherige und Kuenftige Wege des “going nuclear” in Nach den Nukleartests in Suedasien: regionale and globule Auswirkungen, Ebenhausen, Sept. 1998, pp. 79–80.

Botzian , op. cit. , p. 86.

Kanwal , op. cit. , pp. 1039–1075. Also by the same author. “A Nuclear Force Structure for India”, The Statemsman, Calcutta, 6 Jan. 2001. p. 6. See also opinion survey by Bajpai Kanti . “The Great Indian Nuclear Debate”, in Majumdar Anindya J. (ed.), Nuclear India into the New Millennium, Lancer’s, N. Delhi, 2000, pp. 47–81.

Quoted in Kanwal, p. 1041.

A full analysis is superbly presented in Classic Allison Graham T. , Essence of Decision. Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1971. See the three models of decision-making expounded there.

See analysis in Khan S. Rashid , “Aadhi Raat Ke Baad” (“After Midnight”), in Cohen Stephen Philip (ed,) Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia. The Prospects for Arms Control, Lancer International, N. Delhi, 1991, pp. 39–40.

NATO expert Lothar Ruehl’s observation, attended by the author, at a seminar on the S. Asian nuclear tests held by the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn on 7 Sept. 1998.

The Telegraph, Calcutta, 7 Jan. 2001, p. 12.

“Nuclear Arms Control at a Crossroads”, in Feiveson Harold A. (ed.). The Nuclear Turning Point. A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons, Brookings. Washington DC, 1999, p. 4.

“Recommendations of the Kargil Review Committee Report”, Strategic Digest, N. Delhi, vol. XXX. No. 11, Nov. 2000, pp. 1547–1553.

The Statesman, Calcutta, 5 Jan. 2001, p. 1; Kanwal, article, op. cit.

See Banerjee Jyotirmoy Strategic Studies, Allied, Calcutta, 1998, p. 71.

“Nuclear Arms Control at a Crossroads”, in Feiveson (ed.), op. cit. , p. 4.

“National Security Advisory Board. Indian Nuclear Doctrine”. Strategic Digest. IDSA, N. Delhi, vol. XXIX, No. 9, Sept. 1999, pp. 1439–1442.

Details in Banerjee , Strategic Studies, op. cit. , pp. 62–80.

Based on Discovery TV reports Jan-March 2001.