Policy debates around participation in multilateral information-sharing mechanisms highlight fundamental tensions between safety, national security, and international security. Assuring other states that fissile materials are securely managed against t …
War Drums on the Subcontinent (again) by Michael Krepon Imran Khan has been effectively handcuffed. He inherited a hobbled economy, with fifty-four per cent of budget expenditure tied up in funding his military and paying off debt. As l …
Why The U.S. Has Continued To Fight In Afghanistan RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Eighteen years into fighting the nation’s longest war, the U.S. is trying to find an exit ramp for the 14,000 troops still in Afghanistan. Here’s President Trump earlier this week …
Click here to view the event transcript (PDF). India’s nuclear profile, doctrine, and practices have evolved rapidly since the country’s nuclear breakout in 1998. However, the outside world’s understanding of India’s doctrinal debates, forward-looking …
Published December 13, 2018 / Held January 17, 2019
Rajesh Rajagopalan, Professor in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, reviewed Stimson’s edited volume, Investigating Crises: South Asian’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories, in the September 2018 edition of …
By Hannah Haegeland Hannah Haegeland is a research analyst in the Stimson Center’s South Asia Program. Her co-edited volume, Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories, was published by Stimson and is available at c …
Developments in relations between major powers and nuclear-armed states in tense regions render the future of arms control, nuclear confidence-building, and U.S. leadership in the global nonproliferation regime uncertain. Please join the Stimson Center …
After testing nuclear devices in 1998, Indian and Pakistani leaders genuinely believed — or stated for the record, while suspecting otherwise — that bringing bombs out of the basement would help make the region safer and more stable. They assumed, as d …
In May 1998, India detonated five nuclear devices in the Thar Desert, crossing the threshold from a nuclear-capable to a nuclear-armed state. Indian Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee authorized the tests, fulfilling the Bharatiya Janata Party’s long-time pl …
By Yogesh Joshi and Frank O’Donnell India’s nuclear profile, doctrine, and practices have evolved rapidly since the country’s nuclear breakout in 1998. However, the outside world’s understanding of India’s doctrinal debates, forward-looking strategy, a …
By Mansoor Ahmed Mansoor Ahmed writes and comments on various aspects of Pakistan’s nuclear program, policy, and posture and strategic stability dynamics in South Asia. He was a Stanton nuclear security fellow for 2015-2016 and has been working as a po …
Download the Event Audio, and Photos Here Watch the previously recorded livestream at the bottom of the webpage. With tensions mounting between the United States and North Korea, what has been clear is the wide disagreement am …
Published January 23, 2018 / Held February 7, 2018
South Asia remains one of the most crisis-prone regions in the world with some of the highest levels of contested borders, militarized interstate disputes, and terrorist attacks. India and Pakistan’s continued expansion of their fissile material stockp …
Click here to read Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, and Trajectories. Two decades after India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, South Asia remains one of the most crisis-prone regions in the world with some of the …
Published December 19, 2017 / Held January 11, 2018
By Sylvia Mishra and Sarah Bidgood Sylvia Mishra is a 2019 India-U.S. fellow at New America. Her research is focused on Asian security, India-U.S. relations, and South Asian nuclear dynamics. She has been a Scoville fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiat …
Amid the threats of Armageddon being hurled by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, there is much discussion of tactical nuclear weapons — in South Korea, where there is growing sentiment for their return, and in the United States, where there is growing …
By Happymon Jacob Happymon Jacob is an associate professor of diplomacy and disarmament studies at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He previously held teaching positions at the University of Jammu and Jam …
Click here for the event transcript. The triangular nuclear competition among China, India, and Pakistan is intensifying. Friction along the China-India border and the Kashmir divide is growing. As new nuclear capabilities come on-line, will doctrinal …
The triangular competition in Southern Asia appears to be intensifying and posing challenges to stability. In China, India, and Pakistan, new conventional and strategic capabilities are coming online while old ones are being overhauled. Strategic doctr …
Stimson’s South Asia program maintains this timeline chronicling Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) made in South Asia since 1988, and updates it regularly with new events, agreements, and links to relevant news articles. 201 …
Watch the event video below or click here. The Stimson Center held a luncheon conversation with Manoj Joshi, a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. The discussion focused on crisis management, strategic partnerships, and the next f …
Published November 4, 2016 / Held November 21, 2016
In the second nuclear age, no less than the first, there are no realistic prospects for banning multiple-warhead missiles. China has started to deploy such missiles, and India and Pakistan are likely to cross this threshold as well. The motiv …
The Stimson Center recently launched our latest book, The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age. This collection of essays – edited by Michael Krepon, Travis Wheeler, and Shane Mason – takes retrospective and prospective …
Deterrence in South Asia is becoming less stable with the passage of time and an increase in nuclear weapon capabilities. India and Pakistan have not addressed basic issues in dispute, nor have they agreed to set them aside. In 2015, the two countries …
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey McCausland, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Research and Minerva Chair at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College Moderator: Michael Krepon, Stimson Co-founder and Director, South Asia program …
Michael Krepon, Co-Founder of the Stimson Center and Director of Stimson’s South Asia Program, argued that the quest for deterrence stability between India and Pakistan will be as chimerical as it was between the United States and the Soviet Union. The …
Against a backdrop of improved conventional military options and growing nuclear capabilities, India and Pakistan are now engaged in preliminary diplomatic and military sparring over Kashmir. Firing across the Line of Control dividing Kashmir has escal …
Published September 11, 2014 / Held September 11, 2014
On December 13, 2001, extremists trained in Pakistan attacked the Indian Parliament building, triggering a crisis that almost led to war. Twelve years later, the conditions that could lead to uncontrolled escalation not only remain in effect, but have …
Published December 14, 2013 / Held December 13, 2013
The Stimson Center is releasing today an essay by David Smith entitled “The US Experience with Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Lessons for South Asia.” Smith served twice as the US Army Attaché to Pakistan, and is now an independent consultant. After testing …