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"Response to Dr. Quinlan's Critique." Strategic Analysis, 33(3), pp. 347–348
Notes
1. Thus, for instance, US spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have been $52.4 billion in the fiscal year 2008. ‘U.S. Spent More Than $52 Billion on Nuclear Weapon-Related Programs Last Year’, New York Times, January 12, 2009.
2. Albert Wohlstetter, ‘The Delicate Balance of Terror’, Foreign Affairs, 37 (2), 1959, pp. 211–234; P.M.S. Blackett, Studies of War: Nuclear and Conventional, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1962, ch. 10.
3. I do not mean to say that lower levels of instability do not exist; they quite clearly do. But the point is that, precisely because of the recessed postures adopted by India and Pakistan, the potential for nuclear war remains far lower than was the case with the Cold War.