Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia

by S. Paul Kapur

Book Overview

Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening to raise the cost of war astronomically, nuclear weapons make armed conflict in South Asia extremely unlikely. Pessimistic scholars maintain that nuclear weapons make the subcontinent war-prone, because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755507
• ISBN13: 9780804755504
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"