Managing India's nuclear forces / / Verghese Koithara

• Autore: Koithara Verghese <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.54; 355.02/170954; 355.02170954
• Soggetto topico: Nuclear arms control - India; Nuclear weapons - India; Strategic forces - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Military policy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Strategic considerations -- The challenge of deterrence -- A unique nuclear path -- The triad -- Nuclear hardware -- Hardware to forces -- Operational level management -- India's nuclear force management system -- Nuclear strategy -- Development of nuclear forces -- The 'use' of nuclear forces -- The many-faceted challenge.
• Sommario/riassunto: India is now enmeshed in the deterrence game-actively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile materials and strategic technologies. In order to deal with these developments safely and wisely, the nation needs a much more sophisticated and multidisciplinary understanding of the strategic, technological, operational, and cost issues involved in nuclear matters. In this important book, Indian strategic analyst Verghese Koithara explains and evaluates India's nuclear force management,
• Titolo autorizzato: Managing India's nuclear forces
• ISBN: 1-280-48740-2; 9786613582638; 0-8157-2267-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791748703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II