security millennium deterrence perspective

books:

Security in the New Millennium: Views from South Asia
Rajesh M. Basrur

India Research Press, 2001

Contributed articles.

South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Rajesh M. Basrur

Routledge, 2008

An important reappraisal of the continuing conflict in South Asia, drawing an unprecedented parallel between the proliferation of nuclear arms in Pakistan and India and the spiralling tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Rajesh Basrur begins by re-examining the term ?Cold War?, focussing his enquiry on the problems of nation building and the tensions of a nuclear strategic relationship between nations. He ...

Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security (Studies in Asian Security)
Rajesh Basrur

Stanford University Press, 2005

In this book, a leading authority on India?s nuclear program offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India?s nuclear strategy. He shows that the country?s nuclear-strategic culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum deterrence, but is sometimes inconsistent and has a tendency to drift into a more open-ended process. He addresses areas of concern, notably the relationship between minimum deterrence and subnuclear ...