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082			_a355.0217 _bJOS
100			_aJoshi, Yogesh
245		0	_a India in nuclear Asia : evolution of regional forces, perceptions, and policies _c/ Yogesh Joshi ; Frank O'Donnell
250			_a1st edition
260			_b Orient BlackSwan, Telangana: 2018
300			_a xiv, 250 pages ; 23 cm
490			_a Strategic studies
504			_aindex
520			_aThis book explores the unique development of India as a nuclear weapons state, since it conducted a series of nuclear tests in 1998. When India’s first nuclear doctrine was declared in 1999, revised in 2003, the Indian government portrayed an image of a responsible and restrained nuclear power. However, the contemporary picture of India in the nuclear field is beginning to differ from these initial expectations. What explains India’s evolving nuclear posture? How is this technological drive complicating the questions of regional and global security? India in Nuclear Asia provides an overview of the Indian nuclear force as it stands in 2018; studies the implications that the nuclear postures of India’s two main adversaries, Pakistan and China, have on its nuclear strategy; and the formation of India’s nuclear doctrine and challenges it faces. The book also explores India’s relations with countries such as Iran, North Korea and Syria, and how these reveal India’s global non-proliferation policy approache
650			_a India in nuclear asia
650			_aRegional forces
650			_aNuclear arms control India
700			_aDonnell, Frank O'
942			_cENGLISH
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