India's Debated Nuclear Policy

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Notes

1. Itty Abraham, The Making of the Indian Nuclear Bomb (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1998); Jasjit Singh, ed., Nuclear India (New Delhi: Knowledge World, 1998); Amitabh Mattoo, India's Nuclear Deterrent : Pokhran II and Beyond (New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1999); George Perkovich, India's Nuclear Bomb (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace : The Secret Story of India's Quest to Be a Nuclear Power (New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India, 2000). For perspectives critical of Indian policy, see Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001); N. Ram, Riding the Nuclear Tiger (New Delhi: Leftword Books, 2002 [reprint]); and, M.V. Ramana and C. Rammanohar Reddy, eds., Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003).

2. Raja Menon, A Nuclear Strategy for India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000); T. V. Paul, Power Versus Prudence : Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000); Ashok Kapur, Pokhran and Beyond: India's Nuclear Behavior (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001); Ashley J. Tellis, India's Emerging Nuclear Posture (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001); Bharat Karnad, Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security : The Realist Foundations of Strategy (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2002); D. R. Sardesai and Raju G. C. Thomas, eds., Nuclear India in the 21st Century (New York: Palgrave, 2002); Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty, Fearful Symmetry : India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005); Rajesh Rajagopalan, Second Strike: Arguments About Nuclear War in South Asia (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005); Arpit Rajain, Nuclear Deterrence in Southern Asia : China, India, and Pakistan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2005); Rajesh M. Basrur, Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006); S. Paul Kapur, Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006); and Eswaran Sridharan, ed., The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship : Theories of Deterrence and International Relations (New Delhi: Routledge, 2007).

3. Peter Lavoy, Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Scott D. Sagan (ed.), Inside Nuclear South Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).

4. Gideon Rose, “Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy,” World Politics 51, no. 1 (1998).

5. Frey cites a 1999 post-poll survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, which found that over half of the respondents had not even heard about the nuclear tests conducted the previous year (p. 193).

6. Kanti Bajpai, “India's Strategic Culture,” in South Asia in 2020: Future Strategic Balances and Alliances, ed. Michael R. Chambers (Carlisle, PA: US Army War College, 2002), Kanti Bajpai, “Indian Conceptions of Order and Justice,” in Order and Justice in International Relations, ed. Rosemary Foot, John Gaddis, and Andrew Hurrell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

7. Jacques E. C. Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation : Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

8. Bharat Karnad, Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security.