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A series of optimistic or pessimistic lessons can be extracted from the aftermath of the 1998 nuclear detonations by India and Pakistan. If pessimistic “lessons” are accepted, these may well be self-confirming. If the outside world sees important distinctions between South Asia and the situation in other regions, however, some more optimistic conclusions may be in order.
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A useful discussion of the general state of play on nuclear proliferation can be found in Rebecca Johnson, “Is the NPT Tottering?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 55, No. 2 (March/April, 1999) pp. 16–18.
On the special damage done when treaty commitments are violated here, see Michael Mazarr, North Korea and the Bomb (New York: Macmillan, 1995).
The potential importance of democracy as a contribution to peace is discussed in Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Such a critical interpretation of the nonproliferation effort can be found in Ashok Kapur, “New Nuclear States and the International Nuclear Order,” in T. V Paul, Richard Harknett and James Wirtz, eds., The Absolute Weapon Revisited (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998) pp. 237–262.
Leonard Spector, Nuclear Ambitions (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1990)
A good analysis of the nuclear role in the NATO-Warsaw Pact confrontation can be found in Ivo Daalder, The Nature and Practice of Flexible Response (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
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Quester, G.H. (2002). On The “Lessons” of South Asian Proliferation. In: SarDesai, D.R., Thomas, R.G.C. (eds) Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109230_15
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