NUCLEAR RACE IN SOUTH ASIA AND ITS REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Keywords:
Defense, Deterrence, India, Pakistan, Nuclear race, StrategicAbstract
In south Asia India and Pakistan are two nuclear states. Both the
countries are not only involve in the nuclear arms race in the region by
pouring a lion share of their economies in the unending race but have also
complicated the security situation in the region. Both the countries are old
foes due to the bloody partition which still haunt the policies and minds of
the policy makers since 1947 but also have the as old bleeding issue of
Kashmir to this date. Beside this terrorism and other major and minor
disputes are also responsible to track both the countries on arms race. In
this paper I will try to analyses Indian regional and global military
agenda its naval increasing presence in Indian Ocean Pakistan response
and its implication over south Asia and Pakistan itself. Mostly secondary
sources have been concerned in the writing of this paper.
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