Dealing with the bomb in South Asia

Foreign Affairs

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 110-118

  Talbott, Strobe ^a  

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EID: 0008534739     PISSN: 00157120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20049212     Document Type: Review

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1. Bharat Karnad's writing offers a vivid sample of the more muscular options. For a rebuttal, see C. Raja Mohan's November 26, 1998, op-ed in The Hindu, which argues that "India needs nuclear weapons" but also "needs a strategy to limit the international damage from its nuclearization. . . . [I]t does not need a xenophobic 'nuclear Taliban' that will force the country to turn its back on the world." On "existential deterrence," see K. Subrahmanyam's November 17, 1998, op-ed in The Times of India: "India has the benefit of the wisdom drawn from the highly risky and totally non-viable policies of nuclear deployment followed by the us and the USSR. It has, therefore, no intention of repeating those blunders. That is why India has adopted a no-first-use policy. India does not subscribe to the outmoded war-fighting doctrine and the Indian nuclear weapons are meant solely for deterrence." A number of Indian advocates of this view have made an explicit effort to reconcile their country's capacity for wielding the instruments of mass destruction with its "civilizational" values, including those associated with Mohandas K. Gandhi.
2. Bharat Karnad's writing offers a vivid sample of the more muscular options. For a rebuttal, see C. Raja Mohan's November 26, 1998, op-ed in The Hindu, which argues that "India needs nuclear weapons" but also "needs a strategy to limit the international damage from its nuclearization. . . . [I]t does not need a xenophobic 'nuclear Taliban' that will force the country to turn its back on the world." On "existential deterrence," see K. Subrahmanyam's November 17, 1998, op-ed in The Times of India: "India has the benefit of the wisdom drawn from the highly risky and totally non-viable policies of nuclear deployment followed by the us and the USSR. It has, therefore, no intention of repeating those blunders. That is why India has adopted a no-first-use policy. India does not subscribe to the outmoded war-fighting doctrine and the Indian nuclear weapons are meant solely for deterrence." A number of Indian advocates of this view have made an explicit effort to reconcile their country's capacity for wielding the instruments of mass destruction with its "civilizational" values, including those associated with Mohandas K. Gandhi.