India's Nuclear Options and Escalation Dominance
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Authors
Dalton, Toby
Perkovich, George
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2016-05
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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en_US
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Since the early 2000s, Indian strategists have wrestled with the challenge of
motivating Pakistan to demobilize anti-India terrorist groups while managing
the potential for conflict escalation during a crisis. The growing prominence
of nuclear weapons in Pakistan’s national security strategy casts a shadow of
nuclear use over any potential military strategy India might consider to strike
this balance. However, augmenting its nuclear options with tactical nuclear
weapons is unlikely to bolster Indian deterrence in convincing ways.
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Naval Postgraduate School’s Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-15-1-0024 awarded by the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center San Diego, California
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54 p.
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