South Asia On A Short Fuse (Nuclear Politics and The Future of Global Disarmament)

Ch One: The Top Story of the Century: Nuclearism: Sanctification or Popularization? Hollywood and the Bomb, What this book is About The General Perspective. Ch Two: The Global Context-I, BLOC RIVALRY AND THE High Noon of Nuclearsim: The General Politics of the Cold War Era, Nuclearism during the cold War, Massive Retaliation to Flexible Response, Arms Race Management to the Second Cold war. Ch Three: The Global context-II, Hesitant But New: Disarmament Momentum, After the cold War: Six Renunciations, Negative and Positive Consequences, Nato Enlargment and Stockpile Stewardship, indefinite Extension of the NPT, A Spate of New initiatives and the World court verdict. Ch Four: The Road to Pokharan-II and Chagai, The Fateful days of May 1998, Washinton Misjudges Sinals From India, Vajpayee’s rationalization. BOX 1: Safe tests and Popular Doubts: official Claims and people’s experience don’t Match India, Pakistan under Flak. Special Section Historic Degeneration: Evolution of India’s Nuclear Policy: 1947 to the Mid-1960s: Phase I Abstinence in the Nehru Era, Mid-1960s to 1974: Phase II Preparations for the 1974Test, 1974 to 1995-6: Phase III, Ambiguity and its Degradation, 1996 to May 1998: Phase IV Collapse of Ambiguity, slippage into Nuclear deterrence. Annexe 1: Willie Rivalry: What is the Truth About the Yields of Indian and Pakistani Tests? Ch five: South Asia in the Nuclear Trap: The Causes and Consequences of Crossing the Threshold: False Explanations, A Sino-Pakistan Axis? Hypocrisy and the bomb, Nuclear nationalism: the sangh Factor, Hardliners Muscle-Flexing, Nuclearization’s Horrendous Costs, The Domestic Fallout, Pakistan in Imitation mode, Islamabad’s search for parity, inviting ruin, Setback to democratization. Ch Six: Indefensible Arms: The Ethics of War and Nuclear Weapons, Uniquely Immoral, Just and Unjust Wars. BOX 2 Toys for the Boys: How Nuclearism Works Against women: Indiscriminate destruction, Why Nuclear deterrence is Abhorrent, The Pax Christi Bishops’ Argument, The Gandhi-Nehur Legacy and its degradation, Militarist nationalism in India, The Anomalies of Ambiguity, Gandhi’s Second Assassination, A distinctive Insensitivity, Celebrating Mass Destruction. Ch Seven: An Unaffordable Arsenal: The Likely costs of a Credible Minimum Deterrent: Blowing up 5500 billion, How much will Indian Nuclear Weapons Cost: Conservative Estimates, Missed Opportunities. Ch Eight: The Deterrence Delusion: Why Nuclear Weapons do not Generate Security: The Problem of Realism, The Social-Neutrality Myth, The fallacies of Nuclear of Deterrence, Instability of Nuclear Deterrence, How Reliable: Has Deterrence Really Worked? The Myth of Nuclear Blackmail, The India-Pakistan Face-off. BOX 3: Ramshackle Deterrence?: There is little is Reliable in the Disaster-Prone Subcontinent, there is little that is Reliable in the Disaster-Prone Subcontinent. ANNEXE 2 Bombing Bombay: More Devastating than Hiroshima? Ch Nine: From Abstinence, To Ambiguity, To the Nuclear Blasts. Pakistan: Teased into testing, We’ll Eat Grass, India: Scientists’ Pernicious Role, Pakistan: Reactive Consistency, Pokharan-I: From Abstinence to Ambiguity, Recessed Deterrence or Silent Arms Race? The turning point of 1988, The US-India-Pakistan triangle, The Chinese Threat: Myth or Reality? Ch Ten: Challenges to the Global Nuclear Order: Whose Crisis? Whose Dilemma? The Skewed Global Security Equations, Dangers from Altered Security Equations, A Multi-class Nuclear Club. BOX 4 where are they? Worldwide Nuclear Deployments, A Hardening US Posture, The New Nukes dilemmas. Ch Eleven: The Struggle for Nuclear Weapons Abolition; Them and Us, Lessons from Our Past, BOX 5 Marxists and Nuclear Weapons: Ambiguity and the Red bomb, The Fallacy of Nuclear Imperialism, Public Policy and Popular consciousness, BOX 6 No peace in the Land of the Buddha? Disarmament movements in South Asia: What is to be Done? Three Routes, Denuclearization of South Asia, The Importance of NWFZs, CTBT and Beyond, A No First Use Pledge, De-alerting Nuclear Weapons, Conclusion. Appendices: 1. The Comprehensive test ban treaty, The Importance of a text Ban, The final treaty: strengths: and Weaknesses. 2. Self-Serving Sanctimoniousness: Indian criticism of the CTBT. 3. Nuclear Weapon Treaties. 4. International Resolutions: India, Pakistan at the Receiving End, The Neighbourhood Reacts, The G-8 Position, Asean Regional Forum, The NAM resolution, Security council Resolution 1172. Select Bibliography, Index.

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