Nuclear weapons issues in South Asia
This report discusses how the US can play a productive mediating role in South Asia by engaging India and Pakistan in an international forum to manage nuclear weapons, as Edward Teller advocated. India and Pakistan have developed their nuclear capabilities because they fear their neighbors, not because they want to threaten fear their neighbors, not because they want to threaten the US. The appropriate response for the US, therefore, is diplomatic engagement and negotiations. In addition to the international approach, encouragement and facilitation of regional and bilateral interactions will also be important. Formal arms control agreements have been reached, but less formal confidence-building measures, and unilateral security pledges may well be combined to form a more secure strategic environment in South Asia than a nuclear armed confrontation across the porous South Asian border.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 10184458
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-114402; CONF-9211112-2; CSTS-43-93; ON: DE93019612
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference on managing nuclear weapons in a changing world,Livermore, CA (United States),17-18 Nov 1992; Other Information: PBD: 2 Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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