NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN SOUTH ASIA –TOWARDS WORLD WAR-III

Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia

Lieutenant General V.R. Raghavan was India’s Director General of Military Operations from 1992 to 1994. He is currently a Director at the Dehli Policy Group. Raghavan is the author of a number of books and articles, including India’s Search for Strategic Balance (Dehli Policy Group, 1996). This paper was written while the author was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and...

Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on rice production in Mainland China

A regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan with a 5 Tg black carbon injection into the upper troposphere would produce significant climate changes for a decade, including cooling, reduction of solar radiation, and reduction of precipitation, which are all important factors controlling agricultural productivity. We used the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer agricultural ...

Horizontal transmission of hepatitis B virus amongst British 2nd World War soldiers in South-East Asia.

Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is much more common in tropical than in temperate countries. Visitors to the tropics are thus at risk from HBV, though the degree of risk, and the routes of infection involved are uncertain. We report serological markers of HBV in two groups of 2nd World War soldiers, who served in the Thai/Burma jungles. The groups comprised 100 ex-prisoners of the Japane...

South Asia and the Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

• U.S. policy toward the nuclearization of India and Pakistan has shifted from sanctions and rollback to reluctant acceptance of their nuclear status. The United States now seeks to ensure that India and Pakistan become responsible nuclear powers and is emphasizing cooperative measures to prevent war, secure weapons and material from terrorist theft, and stop the further spread of nuclear weapons.

Challenges to Nuclear Stability in South Asia