Stimson is releasing today an essay by George Perkovich on “The Non-Unitary Model and Deterrence Stability in South Asia.” Perkovich is the Vice President for Studies and Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Internationa …
General V.R. Raghavan, the founder of the Delhi Policy Group and the Centre for Security Analysis in Chennai, gave a talk in Washington on October 19, 2012, co-sponsored by Stimson, the Arms Control Association, and the American Association for the Adv …
Jill R. Junnola and Michael Krepon, eds. This collection of essays examines how CBMs have fared in three very different regions- South Asia, the Middle East, and the Southern Cone of Latin America. These regions have implemented specific “tools” from t …
Although New Delhi and Islamabad are resuming official talks after the nineteen-month hiatus resulting from the Mumbai attacks, the impulse to promote bilateral nuclear risk-reduction measures (NRRMs) has largely dissipated. India wants to focus …
On December 13th, the Stimson Center will release our first volume of essays, Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia, edited by Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson. We are releasing a new essay today, “The Conventional Military B …
Edited by Michael Krepon Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia provides a road map for reducing nuclear dangers on the Subcontinent. The timely essays presented here by Indian, Pakistani and US authors are infused by the Stimson Center’s motto, “Pragmat …
Michael Krepon, Rodney W. Jones, and Ziad Haider, editors– On November 10, 2004, the Henry L. Stimson Center hosted a formal book release event for Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia When nations with deep grievances acquire …
Michael Krepon and Mishi Faruqee, eds. Was there a near-nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 1990? To help set the record straight, the Stimson Center convened a meeting on February 16, 1994 with US officials who could provide authoritative eye wi …
Drawing on the issues of crisis, escalation control, and nuclear deterrence, P.R. Chari undertakes a tour d’horizon of the major Indo-Pak crises in the eighties after a nuclear dimension appeared in the calculus.
To paraphrase Raymond Aron, crises have become the substitute of wars between nuclear-armed states. This corollary to nuclear deterrence applies to South Asia, where Pakistan and India have so far experienced two crises with the advent of covert nuclea …
Editor’s note: The Carnegie Endowment convened its 2011 International Nuclear Policy Conferenceon March 28-29 in Washington, D.C. This essay is an adaptation and condensation of the author’s remarks in a panel discussion on “Nuclear Risk Reductio …
In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was set at five minutes to midnight – two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went eyeball to eyeball over missiles in Cuba! W …
After 9/11, countries around the world are re-evaluating the safety and security of their nuclear facilities against sabotage acts. An act of nuclear terrorism on research reactors is of very remote probability in Pakistan, since the controls and secur …
The United States and the Soviet Union managed to avoid nuclear and conventional warfare during the Cold War, while jockeying for advantage in a myriad of ways, including proxy wars and a succession of crises that became surrogates for direct conflict. …
During the 10-month long Indian and Pakistani military mobilization of 2001-02, one of the earliest casualties was the official channel of communication between the two states. With New Delhi deliberately downgrading its relations with Islamabad – by w …
A new Stimson Center report, “Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia,” recommends specific nuclear risk reduction measures to prevent and reduce the consequences of nuclear weapons’ use in South Asia. The recommendations were developed by disting …
Stimson Center’s Visiting Fellow Rafi Khan argues that continuing hostility between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, an issue at the core of three conventional wars and one limited one between the two neighbors, has assumed critically dangerous proport …
Michael Krepon and Chris Gagne, eds. This Stimson Center report provides the first serious analytical effort by a group of Indian, Pakistani, and US analysts to weigh the possible consequences of prospective US deployments of theater and national balli …
This report issued by The Henry L. Stimson Center calls on the Bush administration to replace Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, with Cooperative Threat Reduction. The void created by the US notice to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ne …
To paraphrase Raymond Aron, crises have become the substitute of wars between nuclear-armed states. This corollary to nuclear deterrence applies to South Asia, where Pakistan and India have so far experienced two crises with the advent of covert nuclea …
Michael Krepon and Michael Newbill, eds. Over the past seven years, the Stimson Center has published several essays on the utility of cooperative aerial observation for tension reduction, confidence building, and conflict resolution. The Stimson Center …
Michael Krepon, Jenny S. Drezin, and Michael Newbill, eds. Well-chosen words delivered in public declarations by national leaders can serve to reassure neighbors, demonstrate good will, reinforce common interests, open lines of communication, break dea …
Edited by Jill R. Junnola This publication examines functional confidence-building across regions. These essays explore how the concept of maritime confidence-building is being developed for the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and South Asia, as …
Michael Krepon, Dominique M. McCoy and Matthew C.J. Rudolph, eds, A Handbook of Confidence-Building Measures for Regional Security (Washington, DC: The Henry L. Stimson Center, September 1993). Contents Project on Confidence-building Measures for Regio …