At first glance, it sounds like a great and simple idea. Any nuclear-weapon use would be a catastrophe: it would break the ‘nuclear taboo’ and have, in many scenarios, terrible material, human and even environmental […]
Thirty-one years ago, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, placing a curb on nuclear weapons after decades of Cold War competition. Although the treaty […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan has carried out intensive diplomacy at the international level, including his address at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to apprise the international community about the grave Kashmiri humanitarian crisis and its […]
The South Asian region is widely regarded as being vulnerable to the threat of nuclear war, largely due to the Kashmir issue’s dangerous potential as a ‘nuclear flashpoint’ between India and Pakistan. This is evident […]
A few months ago, Vipin Narang and Christopher Clary, two well-known political scientists, published an article in which they claimed that India is slowly moving towards a counter force strategy against Pakistan; that it may […]
Tensions between the US and Iran have been steadily building for months. After the US pulled out of the Obama-era nuclear deal in 2018, it engaged in a maximum pressure campaign against Iran. The US […]
A policy of No First Use (NFU) asserts that the nuclear arsenal of that state would only be used in response to a nuclear attack and never in response to a conventional attack. Out of […]
In a world of complex interdependence, the political center of gravity has shifted from land to oceans, but the knowledge and cognizance of oceans remains fragmented and specialized. Various states and international actors have placed […]
A perspective on US strategic objectives in the Middle East contends that it is in American interest to undermine Iranian influence, as the latter constitutes a direct threat to the former’s allies in the region. […]
With its inception in 1948, Israel not only pursued a conventional arms race but also a nuclear weapons program to ensure its survival and hegemony in the region. The program is said to have been […]
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