Title: New nukes : India, Pakistan and global nuclear disarmament /
Authors: Bidwai, Praful.; Vanaik, Achin.
Publisher: Olive Branch Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Nuclear nonproliferation.; Nuclear weapons India Testing.; Nuclear weapons Pakistan Testing.
Abstract: Two of India's most respected and experienced journalists and longtime anti-nuclear activists, examine the causes and consequences of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, and provide a framework for understanding the global context in which they occur. They also map out a new approach to nuclear abolition, in which not only south Asia's new nuclear states, but the oldest and mightiest Western nuclear powers would at last begin serious efforts towards full and complete nuclear disarmament -- from cover.
Contents: The top story of the century -- Block rivalry and the high noon of nuclearism -- Hesitant and new : disarmament momentum after the Cold War -- The road to Pokharan II and Chagai. "Safe" tests and popular doubts. The evolution of India's nuclear policy -- South Asia in the nuclear trap : the causes and consequences of India and Pakistan going nuclear. No peace in the "Land of the Buddha"? Mine is bigger than yours : the Indian and Pakistani test yields -- Indefensible arms : the ethics of war and nuclear weapons. Bombing Bombay : more devastating than Hiroshima? Toys for boys : how nuclearism works against women -- An inaffordable arsenal : the cost of a "credible minimal deterrent" -- The deterrence delusion : why nuclear weapons don't generate security. Ramshackle deterrence -- From abstinence, to ambiguity, to the nuclear blasts -- Challenges to the global nuclear order : whose crisis? whose dilemma? Where are the missiles? -- The struggle for nuclear weapons abolition. Marxists and the bomb.