Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia - Hardcover

Henry L. Stimson Center

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403967024 ISBN 13: 9781403967022

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides a road map for reducing nuclear dangers on the Subcontinent. The Henry L. Stimson Center has been promoting confidence building and nuclear risk reduction in South Asia since 1991. The timely essays presented here by Indian, Pakistani and US authors are infused by the Stimson Center's motto, "Pragmatic Steps Toward Ideal Objectives." This book is essential reading for government officials, military officers, teachers, researchers, and all those who seek a safer future for the Subcontinent.

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Michael Krepon is the founding president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, where he directs the Center's South Asia programming. He is the author or editor of Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (1984); Arms Control in the Reagan Administration (1989); Verification and Compliance, A Problem-Solving Approach (1988); Commercial Observation Satellites and International Security (1990); The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification (1991); Open Skies, Arms Control and Cooperative Security (1992); Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia (1995); Global Confidence Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions (1999); Space Assurance or Space Dominance, The Case Against Weaponizing Space (2003) and Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future(2003). He teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

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"If ever a region needed innovative measures to reduce nuclear risks, it is South Asia -- the world's most volatile nuclear powder keg, according to many. This Stimson Center volume provides the most accessible, expert, and realistic guide to what can and should be done to stabilize the Indo-Pak nuclear relationship."

-- George Perkovich, Vice President, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author, India's Nuclear Bomb

"Anyone interested in the mechanics of reducing the danger of nuclear conflict in South Asia must read this book. At a time when India and Pakistan are feeling their way toward detente and China is playing a constructive regional role, the analyses in the Stimson Center's penetrating compendium of essays will enrich negotiators and policy thinkers alike. What lessons from the Cold War may be applied in South Asia remain to be worked out, but this timely volume provides an invaluable data base for choice."

-- Nicholas Platt, President, The Asia Society and former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan

"Michael Krepon's work is timely and valuable. No scholar has thought harder or more incisively about nuclear India and Pakistan than has Mr. Krepon; nor has anyone given clearer or more original thought to nuclear weapons and South Asia's quest for peace and stability. His work is a must for students of the region and all interested in the vital issues of non-proliferation."

-- Frank G.Wisner, Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc., and former U.S. Ambassador to India

"Micheal Krepon's very insightful book comes at the best possible time, the beginning of the first really serious talks on nuclear risk reduction between India and Pakistan. Thus the careful analysis and commentary will be of substantial value to the two governments as they proceed, as well as of special interest to all those concerned over preventing the specter of nuclear arms in the subcontinent."

-- Robert B. Oakley, Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University and former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan

"It is rare for a book to be both provocative and balanced, but Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia is exactly that. The authors are provocative in identifying new and serious nuclear problems that are emerging in the region. Yet the authors are balanced in their assessment of potential solutions, carefully analyzing the pros and cons of alternative steps towards stability. This is essential reading.””

-- Scott Sagan, Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, and author, The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1403967024
• ISBN 13: 9781403967022
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Herausgeber: Krepon Michael
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Koch-Chemie GmbH; https://www.koch-chemie.com; ; Einsteinstr. 42; Unna; 59423; Deutschland