This book provides a road map for reducing nuclear dangers on the Subcontinent. The Henry L. Stimson Center has been promoting confidence building and nuclear risk reduction in South Asia since 1991. The timely essays presented here by Indian, Pakistani and US authors are infused by the Stimson Center's motto, "Pragmatic Steps Toward Ideal Objectives." This book is essential reading for government officials, military officers, teachers, researchers, and all those who seek a safer future for the Subcontinent.
Synopsis
This book provides a road map for reducing nuclear dangers on the Subcontinent. The Henry L. Stimson Center has been promoting confidence building and nuclear risk reduction in South Asia since 1991. The timely essays presented here by Indian, Pakistani and US authors are infused by the Stimson Center's motto, "Pragmatic Steps Toward Ideal Objectives." This book is essential reading for government officials, military officers, teachers, researchers, and all those who seek a safer future for the Subcontinent.
About the Author, Michael Krepon
Michael Krepon is the founding president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, where he directs the Center's South Asia programming. He is the author or editor of Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (1984); Arms Control in the Reagan Administration (1989); Verification and Compliance, A Problem-Solving Approach (1988); Commercial Observation Satellites and International Security (1990); The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification (1991); Open Skies, Arms Control and Cooperative Security (1992); Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia (1995); Global Confidence Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions (1999); Space Assurance or Space Dominance, The Case Against Weaponizing Space (2003) and Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future(2003). He teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.
