Public opinion and nuclear options for South Asia

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 727-743

  Ahmed, Samina ^c   Cortright, David ^a   Mattoo, Amitabh ^b  

^a Fourth Freedom Forum   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; GEOPOLITICS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

(SOUTH); ASIA;

EID: 0032423304     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1998.38.8.01p0376a     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. The findings are elaborated in greater detail and accompanied by analytic essays in David Cortright and Amitabh Mattoo, eds., India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996); and Samina Ahmed and David Cortright, eds., Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming).
2. The findings are elaborated in greater detail and accompanied by analytic essays in David Cortright and Amitabh Mattoo, eds., India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996); and Samina Ahmed and David Cortright, eds., Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming).
3. Bhutto wrote from his death row prison cell before his execution: "We know that Israel and South Africa have full nuclear capabilities. The Christian, Jewish, and Hindu civilizations have this capability. The Islamic civilization was without it, but that situation was about to change." In Zufiqar Ali Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated (New Delhi: Vikas, 1979), pp. 137-38.
4. Quoted in Mitchell Reiss, "South Asia and Nuclear Proliferation: A Future Unlike the Past?" RUSI Journal 138:6 (December 1993), p. 63.
5. United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 1996 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 136.
6. Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997), p. 9.
7. "Documents: Resolutions Adopted at the NPT Extension Conference," Arms Control Today 25:5 (June 1995), p. 30.
8. The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, p. 86.
9. Remarks of General George Lee Butler, USAF (ret.), Washington, D.C., National Press Club, December 4, 1996.