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This book deals comprehensively with the evolution of Indian nuclear weapons strategy, policy and posture. The first half of the book constitutes a substantial revisionist history. In the main, tracing the country's strategic ethos and culture to the Hindu machtpolitik of Vedic India, dispassionately deconstructing Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of non-violence, which was more a political tool to discomfit the British Raj than a blueprint for independent ...
This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of "credible minimum deterrence" at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier "minimum" suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical ...