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General

• Nuclear Proliferation and South Asia: Recent Trends
  An issue brief by Sharad Joshi for the NTI website, August 2007.
  Created: August 10, 2007

• Nonproliferation Issues Raised by U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
  The March 2 agreement on US-India nuclear cooperation has raised a number of concerns that require further attention, especially with regards to its effect on the international nonproliferation regime.
  A CNS Research Story.
  Created: March 2, 2006

• The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Taking Stock
  An article co-authored by Lawrence Scheinman (CNS Distinguised Professor), Fred McGoldrick, and Harold Bengelsdorf, for Arms Control Today, October 2005

• India and the New Look of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy (PDF format)
  An analysis by William C. Potter (CNS Director) for the Nonproliferation Review, Summer 2005, Volume 12, Number 2

• Indian Companies Removed From Entity List, as Bush Administration Presses to Ease Restrictions on Civil Nuclear and Commercial Space Cooperation with New Delhi (PDF format)
  A report by Stephanie Lieggi for the International Export Control Observer, October 2005, pp. 18-20

• Implications of Proposed India-U.S. Civil Nuclear Cooperation
  An issue brief by Dennis M. Gormley and Lawrence Scheinman for the NTI website, July 2005

• Seven Years After the Nuclear Tests: Appraising South Asia's Nuclear Realities
  An issue brief by Gaurav Kampani for the NTI website, July 2005,

• Indo-U.S. Space Cooperation: Poised for Take-Off?
  A report by Sundara Vadlamudi for the Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2005, Volume 12, Number 1 (abstract only)

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Country Overviews

Each Country Overview contains an overview of the country's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and missile programs, with links to other relevant web sites, and excerpts from the Nuclear and Missile Developments Database and Chemical and Biological Weapons Terrorism ListServ.

• India
• Pakistan

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Indian & Pakistani Nuclear Facilities: Maps & Reports

• Selected Indian Nuclear Facilities
  Created: July 1999

• Pakistan’s Nuclear Related Facilities (PDF, 340k)
  Annotated Fact Sheet and Map with Links to Facility Information and CNS Database Entries.
  Created: 1997

• Map of Selected Indian Nuclear Facilities (PDF)
  Created: 1996

• Map of Selected Pakistani Nuclear Facilities (PDF)
  Created: 1996

• Chinese Assistance to Pakistani Nuclear and Missile Programs (PDF, 45k)

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Nonproliferation Review Articles on South Asia

Note: All NPR articles are in PDF format.
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Fall-Winter 2002, Volume 9 · Number 3

• Second Tier Proliferation: The Case of Pakistan and North Korea (PDF Format)
  A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 9.3.
  by Guarav Kampani

Fall-Winter 2001, Volume 8 · Number 3

• Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia (PDF format)
  An article for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.3.
  by V.R. Raghavan

Summer 2001, Volume 8 · Number 2

• Security Challenges in South Asia (PDF format)
  A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.2.
  by Maleeha Lodhi.
  Created: Summer 2001

Fall-Winter 2000, Volume 7 · Number 3

• India's Nuclear Doctrine: Confused Ambitions (PDF format)
  A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 7.3.
  by P.R. Chari
  Created: Fall-Winter 2000

Fall 1999, Volume 6 · Number 4

• The Economic Impacts of the 1998 Sanctions on India and Pakistan
  Article by Daniel Morrow and Michael Carriere

Spring-Summer 1999, Volume 6 · Number 3

• An Impossible Game: Stable Nuclear Deterrence After the Indian and Pakistani Tests
  Article by Mario E. Carranza

• Command and Control Challenges in South Asia
  Article by Clayton P. Bowen and Daniel Wolvén

Fall 1998, Volume 6 · Number 1

• The Systemic Bases of India's Challenge to the Global Nuclear Order
  Article by T.V. Paul

• From Existential to Minimum Deterrence: Explaining India's Decision to Test
  Article by Gaurav Kampani

• Domestic-International Linkages: India and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
  Article by Dinshaw Mistry

• India's Deterrence Doctrine: A Nehruvian Critique
  Viewpoint by T.T. Poulose

• Nonproliferation Prospects after the South Asian Nuclear Tests
  Viewpoint by Wade Huntley

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CNS Web Reports

• India and Pakistan Missile Race Surges On
  An article by Sharad Joshi for WMD Insights.
  Created: October 8, 2007

• Proliferation Unbound: Nuclear Tales from Pakistan
  After years of blanket denials, Pakistan's government has finally admitted that during 1989-2003 Pakistani nuclear scientists and entities proliferated nuclear weapons-related technologies, equipment, and know how to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.
  CNS Research Story by Gaurav Kampani.
  Created: February 23

• India and China - Moving Closer?
  "With international attention focused elsewhere, a visit to China by Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes over the past week received little coverage. Nonetheless, Mr Fernandes' China trip is significant in a number of ways."
  An op-ed by Jing-Dong Yuan for the South China Morning Post.
  Created: May 20, 2003

  India's Compellance Strategy: Calling Pakistan's Nuclear Bluff Over Kashmir
  "Islamabad's apparent decision to accept war termination in Kashmir on New Delhi's terms essentially implies that India may have finally called Pakistan's nuclear bluff over Kashmir."
  Research Story of the Week by Gaurav Kampani.
  June 10, 2002

• Placing the Indo-Pakistani Standoff in Perspective (PDF format)
  by Gaurav Kampani
  Created: April 8, 2002

• Russia to Lease Two Nuclear Submarines to India
  Research Story of the Week.
  Created: February 18, 2002

• Safety of Pakistani Nuclear Arsenal & Installations
  by Gaurav Kampani
  Created: 28 September 2001

• Overview of Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities in the Middle East and South Asia
  If the United States starts military actions against either Afghanistan or Iraq, its forces will be operating in a region of the world where many countries have weapons of mass destruction (WMD), or are seeking to develop them.
  Created 14 September 2001

• United States Seeks Pakistan's Assistance
  Attention is turning to the role Pakistan can play in assisting a U.S. military strike on Afghanistan and in capturing alleged terrorist leader Usama Bin Laden.
  Created 14 September 2001

• Pakistani Perspective on Arms Control and Nonproliferation
  Washington D.C. Office 2000 Briefing Series, December 14, 2000.
  Created: 2000

• How a US National Missile Defense Will Affect South Asia
  by Gaurav Kampani
  Created: May 2000

• CTBT Endgame in South Asia?
  by Gaurav Kampani
  Created: January 2000

• The Military Coup in Pakistan: Implications for Nuclear Stability in South Asia
  by Gaurav Kampani
  Created: October 1999

• Test Ban Treaty: Asian Concerns
  by Tariq Rauf
  Created: 17 August 1996

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Outside Publications by CNS Staff

Publications:

• Elections in Pakistan: A Major Shift or More of the Same?
  an op-ed by Sharad Joshi for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi.
  Created: March 26, 2008

• Questions Persist on Reported Russian Lease of Nuclear Sub to India
  An article by Anya Loukianova for WMD Insights.
  Created: December 6, 2007

• The Dragon and the Elephant: Chinese-Indian Relations in the 21st Century [PDF format]
  An article by Jing-dong Yuan in the Summer 2007 issue of the Washington Quarterly.
  Created: June 12, 2007

• Pakistan's Missile Tests Highlight Growing South Asia Nuclear Arms Race, Despite New Confidence Building Measures
  an article by Sharad Joshi for WMD Insights.
  Created: April 3, 2007

• U.S.-India Space Cooperation Reaches New Heights, Despite Lingering Proliferation Concerns
  an article by Jennifer Kline for WMD Insights.
  Created: July 21, 2006

• New Head of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Apparently Tied to 1980s Nuclear Smuggling
  An analysis by Leonard S. Spector and Haider Nizamani for the WMD Insights.
  Created: May 4, 2006

• Nuclear Watch—Pakistan: The Sorry Affairs of the Islamic Republic
  An issue brief by Gaurav Kampani for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Created: January 15, 2003

• Indo-Pakistani Military Standoff: Why It Isn't Over Yet
  The recent crisis between India and Pakistan, which again raised fears of a war between the two nuclear powers, has receded. Though war has been averted in this current crisis, basic, critical problems still exist between the two South Asian powers. An issue brief by Gaurav Kampani for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Created: June 2002

• In Praise of Indifference Toward India's Bomb
  Gaurav Kampani, Orbis, Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2001, pp. 241-257.

• Learning to Live With the Bomb in South Asia
  Tariq Rauf, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999

Op-Eds:

• Pakistan: A Shift Away From Indo-Centricism
  Gaurav Kampani & Dr. Haider K. Nizamani, Dawn, 16 April 2001

• How and Why China Proliferates Ballistic Missiles to Pakistan
  Phillip Saunders & Dr. Jing-dong Yuan with Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, 22 August 2000

• Barking Up The Wrong Tree
  Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, August 1999

• The Escalating War in Kashmir
  Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, May 1999

• India's Kosovo Conundrum
  Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, April 1999

• Hammering Out an Indo-US Nuclear Deal
  Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, December 1998

• What Story Does Ghauri Tell Us?
  Gaurav Kampani, Rediff on the Net, May 1998

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South Asia Archive