India's Emerging Nuclear Posture: Between Recessed Deterrent and Ready Arsenal, Issue 1127On May 11, 1998, after a hiatus of more than two decades, India conducted a series of nuclear tests that signaled a critical shift in its strategic thinking. Once content to embrace a nuclear posture consisting largely of "maintaining the option"--I.e., neither creating a nuclear arsenal nor renouncing its right to do so--India is now on the threshold of adopting a posture that, while stopping short of creating a ready arsenal, will take as its goal the establishment of a "minimum but credible deterrent," known as a "force-in-being." This book examines the forces--political, strategic, technological, and ideational--that led to this dramatic policy shift and describes how New Delhi's force-in-being will be fashioned, particularly in light of the threat India faces from its two most salient adversaries, China and Pakistan. The book evaluates in detail the material, infrastructural, and procedural capabilities India currently possesses as well as those it is likely to acquire in its efforts to meet the needs of its evolving force-in-being. Finally, the volume concludes by assessing the strategic implications of India's posture both on the South Asian region in particular and on the global nonproliferation regime in general. |
Contents
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Relations with Key Countries | 70 |
Domestic Politics and National Economic Performance | 83 |
CONCERNS CONTEXTS AND CONSTRAINTS | 253 |
The Declaratory Level of Policy | 255 |
The Operational Level of Policy | 290 |
THE LOGIC AND STRUCTURE OF THE EVOLVING FORCEINBEING | 360 |
Limited in Size | 368 |
Separated in Disposition | 395 |
Centralized in Control | 422 |
TAKING STOCK | 461 |
ASSESSING ALTERNATIVE INDIAN NUCLEAR POSTURES | 111 |
ALTERNATIVES INVOLVING DENUCLEARIZATION | 119 |
Renounce the Nuclear Option | 120 |
A Regional NuclearFree Zone | 149 |
Evaluating Denuclearization | 162 |
ALTERNATIVES INVOLVING NUCLEARIZATION | 166 |
Maintaining the Nuclear Option | 167 |
A Recessed Deterrent | 205 |
Developing a Ready Nuclear Arsenal | 219 |
WHAT WILL INDIA CHOOSE? | 237 |
TOWARD A FORCEINBEING I UNDERSTANDING INDIAS NUCLEAR DOCTRINE AND FUTURE FORCE POSTURE | 245 |
TOWARD A FORCEINBEING II ASSESSING THE REQUIREMENTS AND ADEQUACY OF THE EVOLVING DETERRENT | 471 |
WHAT INDIA HAS WHAT INDIA HASNT | 472 |
Nuclear Weapons | 492 |
Delivery Systems | 521 |
Supporting Infrastructure | 576 |
Procedural Systems | 629 |
MEETING THE DEMANDS OF SUCCESSFUL DETERRENCE | 665 |
THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF INDIAS NUCLEAR POSTURE | 719 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 761 |
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