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Preventing Catastrophe: US Policy Options for Management of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia: Maxwell Paper No. 25

Preventing Catastrophe: US Policy Options for Management of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia: Maxwell Paper No. 25

Wojtysiak, Lieutenant Colonel Usaf Mar
Press, Air University

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ISBN10: 1479369950
ISBN13: 9781479369959
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 22 2012
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In Preventing Catastrophe: US Policy Options for Management of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia, Lt. Col. Martin J. Marty Wojtysiak, USAF, proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the threat in The Nuclear Catastrophe of 2005, a gripping projection of the worst case scenario on the current realities of the Indian subcontinent. Written a year after the catastrophe, it vividly describes the events leading up to the disaster as well as the grim aftermath of a South Asian nuclear war. The remainder of the paper looks at US regional objectives and suggests how they might be achieved. The author proposes a regional proliferation regime that realistically addresses the threat and moves the United States to a pragmatic approach to manage and limit the ongoing proliferation in South Asia. At present, India and Pakistan possess only marginal strategic delivery capabilities, and the tensions between them remain at the simmering stage. The United States is pursuing closer relations with India with tangible success, but its relations with Pakistan have soured over the last ten years and reached a low point following the military coup of October 1999. The author believes this imbalance contributes to regional instability and leaves disturbing questions on the horizon. Can the United States help prevent the deployment of nuclear weapon systems in India and Pakistan? How does the United States help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology to less friendly, perhaps even hostile, countries? Can Washington prevent either India or Pakistan, or both, from turning hostile to the United States?

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