India, Pakistan, and the bomb
Subtitle: debating nuclear stability in South Asia
By: Šumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur.
Contributors: Kapur, S. Paul.
Series: Contemporary Asia in the world
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780231143745; 9780231512824
Subjects: Nuclear arms control -- India; Nuclear arms control -- Pakistan; Nuclear nonproliferation -- India; Nuclear nonproliferation -- Pakistan; Security, International -- India; Security, International -- Pakistan; Indian -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan; Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- India
Description: "In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of Indo-Pakistani conflict; title: Competing arguments about South Asian proliferation; title: South Asia's nuclear past; title: South Asia's nuclear present and future; title: Three points of agreement.