New Nukes : India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament

by Vanaik, Achin

• ISBN13: 9781566563178
• ISBN10: 1566563178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

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, provide a framework for understanding the global context in which they occur and map out a new approach to global nuclear abolition.

Author Biography

Prafvl Bidwai and Achin Vanaik are both Fellows of Transnational Institute (TNI)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction The End of the Imagination	xix
Arundhati Roy
The Top Story of the Century	1	(12)
Bloc Rivalry and the High Noon of Nuclearism	13	(17)
Hesitant and New: Disarmament Momentum after the Cold War	30	(14)
The Road to Pokharan II and Chagai	44	(25)
``Safe'' Tests and Popular Doubts	48	(9)
The Evolution of India's Nuclear Policy	57	(12)
South Asia in the Nuclear Trap: The Causes and Consequences of India and Pakistan Going Nuclear	69	(46)
No Peace in the ``Land of the Buddha''?	90	(9)
Mine is Bigger than Yours: The Indian and Pakistani Test Yields	99	(16)
Indefensible Arms: The Ethics of War and Nuclear Weapons	115	(33)
Bombing Bombay: More Devastating than Hiroshima?	123	(9)
Toys for Boys: How Nuclearism Works Against Women	132	(16)
An Unaffordable Arsenal: The Cost of a ``Credible Minimal Deterrent''	148	(8)
The Deterrence Delusion: Why Nuclear Weapons Don't Generate Security	156	(30)
Ramshackle Deterrence	175	(11)
From Abstinence, to Ambiguity, to the Nuclear Blasts	186	(27)
Challenges to the Global Nuclear Order: Whose Crisis? Whose Dilemma?	213	(19)
Where Are the Missiles?	218	(14)
The Struggle for Nuclear Weapons Abolition	232	(31)
Marxists and the Bomb	236	(27)
Appendices	263	(27)
Abbreviations	290	(14)
Bibliography	304	(2)
Index	306