Strategic Studies Institute

Nonproliferation Studies

Added November 01, 1992

Type: Monograph

Nuclear Pakistan and Nuclear India: Stable Deterrent or Proliferation Challenge? Authored by Dr. George H. Quester.

Nuclear proliferation, a security issue which has transcended the cold war, has been, and is, particularly troublesome in South Asia. There, India and Pakistan, neighbors with unresolved disputes since they were granted independence at the end of World War II, are believed to have nuclear weapons (although the leaders of both nations deny it) and are intermittently engaged in conflict with each other.