India Debates Missile Defense

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Notes

1 For a detailed history of the evolution of the missile defense program under the Reagan administration, see Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster 2000).

2 The Rumsfeld Commission Report on ‘the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States’ is available at ⟨www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/rumsfeld/index.html⟩.

‘Australia to Join US Missile Defense System’, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2003;

‘Japan Joining US in Missile Shield’, New York Times, 3 April 2004.

3 Wade Boese, ‘US Eyes Missile Defense Site in Europe’, Arms Control Today (July/Aug. 2004) p.39. Also see, Ian Traynor, ‘US plans missile shield for Central Europe’, The Hindu, 14 July 2004.

4 Wade Boese, ‘Greenland Radar Cleared for US Missile Defense’, Arms Control Today (July/Aug. 2004) p.39.

5 For details on the positions of UK and Canada on missile defense cooperation with the US, see Andrew Richter, ‘A Question of Defense: How American Allies are Responding to the US Missile Defense Program’, Comparative Strategy 23/2 (April–June 2004) pp.143–72.

6 Luke Hill, ‘Missile Defense Advances at NATO’, Jane’s Defence Weekly, 4 June 2003.

7 Clifford Krauss, ‘Canada Says It Won’t Join Missile Shield With the US’, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2005.

8 Vladimir Radyuhin, ‘Russia makes progress on missile defense’, The Hindu, 29 March 2003.

9 ‘Russia Tests New Missile Systems’, CNN, 17 Nov. 2004 at ⟨www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/17/russia.putin⟩.

10 See the Rumsfeld Commission Report (note 2).

11 C. Raja Mohan, ‘India Welcomes Bush Plans for Cuts in N‐arsenals’, The Hindu, 3 May 2001; Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, ‘India Endorses Nuke Strategy Shift’, Hindustan Times, 3 May 2001; Jyoti Malhotra, ‘India blows trumpet for US defense plan’, Indian Express, 2 May 2001.

12 Aunohita Mojumdar, ‘India, Russia Sweep Aside Differences’, The Statesman, 24 June 2000; Vladimir Radyuhin, ‘India backs Russia on Missile Defense’, The Hindu, 24 June 2000.

13 Siddhartha Varadarajan, ‘Indo‐US ties to face “missile defense” test’, Times of India, 29 May 2004.

14 See, for example, J.N. Dixit, ‘What’s in it for us?’ Indian Express, 17 May 2001; Muchkund Dubey, ‘Missile Defense and India’, The Hindu, 9 May 2001; ‘Playing Second Fiddle’, The Hindu, 4 May 2001; Ashok K. Mehta, ‘India jumped the gun and had to eat its words in endorsing the BMD’, at ⟨http://rediff.com/news/2001/may/16ashok.htm⟩.

15 K.K. Katyal, ‘Euphoric Govt., Aggrieved Opposition’, The Hindu, 10 May 2001.

16 C. Raja Mohan, ‘India Welcomes Bush Plans for Cuts in N‐arsenals’, The Hindu, 3 May 2001.

17 Peter Slevin, ‘US to Send India Nuclear, Space Technology’, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2004.

18 Gulshan Luthra, ‘Advanced Patriots on Offer’, The Tribune, 16 March 2005.

19 ‘India, US to strengthen defense cooperation’, Times of India, 4 June 2004; Vishal Thapar, ‘Military ties to Continue: US’, Hindustan Times, 2 June 2004.

20 Vishal Thapar, ‘Military Ponders Missile Defense’, Hindustan Times, 2 Aug. 2004.

21 This study titled “Ballistic Missiles and Missile Defense in Asia” by Michael Swaine and Loren Runyon is available at ⟨www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol13no3/13.3.pdf⟩

22 R.K. Mishra, ‘Nuclear and Missile Threats to India’, South Asia Analysis Group, Paper No. 296, available at ⟨www.saag.org/papers3/paper296.html⟩.

23 For details, see Swaine and Runyon (note 22) pp.37–42, 44–5.

24 Details of the Indian missile capabilities at available at ⟨www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/missile/index.html⟩.

25 ‘India Building Anti‐Missile System’, The Tribune, 29 June 2004.

26 Sandeep Dikshit, ‘India to build missile shield with US help’, The Hindu, 2 June 2002.

27 B. Muralidhar Reddy, ‘Patriot Missiles: Pakistan conveys concern to US’, The Hindu, 24 Feb. 2005.

28 G. Parthasarthy, ‘Tomorrow’s security‐missile defense’, The Pioneer, 10 May 2001; S. Chandrasekharan, ‘NMD, TMD and India’, South Asia Analysis Group, Paper No. 140, available at ⟨www.saag.org/papers2/paper140.html⟩.

29 Brahma Chellaney, ‘India is Poised to Benefit from Missile Defense’, International Herald Tribune, 11 May 2001; J.K. Dutt, ‘Imponderable of a Nuclear Race’, The Statesman, 28 March 2001.

30 K. Subrahmanyam, ‘Shoot for Indo‐US Missile Ties’, Indian Express, 18 Feb. 2005.

31 See the comments of P.R. Chari in R. Sengupta, ‘Why India embraced NMD?’ at ⟨www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/10nmd.htm⟩.

32 Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, ‘Arrows and Exports: The new Indo‐US nuclear agenda’, Hindustan Times, 30 Sept. 2002.

33 C. Raja Mohan, ‘Indo‐US dialogue on NMD?’ The Hindu, 14 March 2001.

34 Kaushal Vepa, ‘India and US National Missile Defense’, at ⟨www.bharat‐rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE4‐1/vepa.html⟩.

35 K. Subrahmanyam, ‘Death of a Treaty’, Times of India, 10 July 2000.

36 Rajesh Basrur, ‘Missile Defense and South Asia: An Indian Perspective’, available at ⟨www.stimson.org/southasia/pdf/SABMDBasrur.pdf⟩.

37 R. Ramachandran, ‘Implications for India’, Frontline, 22 July–4 Aug. 2000; Achin Vanaik, ‘India’s response to the NMD’, The Hindu, 25 May 2000; Gaurav Kampani, ‘How a US National Missile Defense Will Affect South Asia’, CNS Reports, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, May 2000, available at ⟨http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/usmslsa.htm⟩.

38 Sumit Ganguly, ‘The folly of missile defense’, The Hindu, 10 July 2004.

39 Rajesh Rajagopalan, ‘Missile Defenses in South Asia: Much Ado About Nothing’, South Asian Survey 11/2 (Sept. 2004) pp.205–17.

40 C. Raja Mohan, ‘A Last Opportunity’, The Hindu, 21 June 2004.

41 Inder Malhotra, ‘Travails of hi‐tech transfer’, The Tribune, 8 July 2004.

42 Muchkund Dubey, ‘Missile Defense and India’, The Hindu, 9 May 2001.

43 Siddhartha Varadarajan, ‘Indo‐US ties to face “missile defense” test’, Times of India, 29 May 2004.

44 See, for example, ‘Playing Second Fiddle’, The Hindu, 4 May 2001.

45 ‘A New Arms Race?’ Hindustan Times, 12 Dec. 2001; Manpreet Sethi, ‘A Goodbye to Global Security?’ Indian Express, 19 Dec. 2001.

46 S. Murlidharan, ‘Illogical Exuberance’, Frontline, 26 May–8 June 2001.

47 Bharat Karnad, ‘Missile Defense: Immature Technology, Counter‐Proliferation Trap’, Force (May 2004); Bharat Karnad, ‘After Pak, India’, Asian Age, 12 April 2004.

48 V. Sudarshan, ‘Booster Shots’, Outlook, 19 April 2004; C. Raja Mohan, ‘A Last Opportunity’, The Hindu, 21 June 2004.

49 This title has been borrowed from the work done by Kanti Bajpai on this issue. He has delineated various strands in the debate in India on the nuclear weapons policy that India should adopt. See Kanti Bajpai, ‘The Great Indian Nuclear Debate’, The Hindu, 11 Nov. 1999.

50 For details on this debate, see Kanti Bajpai, ‘Nuclear Policy, Grand Strategy, and Political Values in India’, Seventeenth P.C. Lal Memorial Lecture, 18 Feb. 2000. It is available at ⟨www.ceri‐sciences‐po.org/archive/jan01/nuclear.pdf⟩.

51 Sha Zukang, ‘Some Thoughts on Non‐Proliferation’, Paper presented at the seventh Carnegie International Conference on Non‐Proliferation, 11–12 Jan. 1999. It is available at ⟨www.ceip.org/programs/npp/sha.htm⟩.

52 Kori Urayama, ‘China Debates Missile Defense’, Survival 46/2 (Summer 2004) pp.131–5.