Thank heavens, the “war-mongers” on the Indian side have piped down, with the Pakistan Army promising to exercise restraint. There can be no denying the excesses of the Pakistan army in brutally killing two Indian soldiers at the Line of Control. But an eye-for-an-eye (or ‘ten heads for one...
New Year, New Problem? Pakistan’s Tactical Nukes
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Pakistan is developing a new generation of smaller “tactical” nuclear weapons. The dangers and challenges such arms present are very real. October of last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Many Asian policymakers will read the lessons of that harrowing episode with some self-satisfaction. When India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear weapon tests in 1998,foreign analysts repeatedly told them that, as poor countries with weak institutions, they could not be entrusted with such awesome weaponry. Nascent nuclear powers were simply less reliable stewards than their Cold War counterparts. Over a...