South Asia: The Irrelevance of Classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory

Abstract Notes 1. For a recent piece of writing along this line, see Mitchell B. Reiss, “The Nuclear Tipping Point: Prospects for a World of Many Nuclear Weapons States,” in Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, eds., The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004), p. 10. The US National Intelligence Council in its most recent report pertaining to South Asia has rated the risk of war in the next 15 years between India and Pakistan triggered by the Kashmir dispute, as “fairly high.” See “Threat of war looms in S. Asia,” The Asian Age, February 23, 2005. 2. George H. Quester, Deterrence Before Hiroshima (New York: John…