Correspondence: Battling over Pakistan's Battlefield Nuclear Weapons
| العنوان: | Correspondence: Battling over Pakistan's Battlefield Nuclear Weapons |
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| المؤلفون: | Jaganath Sankaran, Gaurav Kampani, Christopher Clary |
| المصدر: | International Security. 40:166-177 |
| بيانات النشر: | MIT Press - Journals, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Sociology and Political Science, Civilian casualties, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Poison control, 02 engineering and technology, Nuclear weapon, Computer security, computer.software_genre, Suicide prevention, 0506 political science, Military personnel, Battlefield, Political science, Political economy, Political Science and International Relations, 050602 political science & public administration, Nuclear energy policy, Law, computer, Tactical nuclear weapon |
| الوصف: | In "Pakistan's Battlefield Nuclear Policy," Jaganath Sankaran argues that Pakistan's threat to employ tactical nuclear weapons in a war with India is not credible because the use of such weapons would cause the immediate deaths of hundreds of thousands of Pakistani civilians while achieving negligible military effects.1 Sankaran, however, misunderstands how Pakistan is likely to employ nuclear weapons during wartime; he overstates the likely number of Pakistani civilian casualties from the initial use of tactical nuclear weapons; and he understates the potential negative battlefield consequences for the Indian army. Why would any rational Pakistani leader pull the trigger if it inevitably meant the death of so many Pakistani innocents and only a few Indian military personnel? If Sankaran's analysis is to be believed, no leader would. Thus, Pakistan's threat to use tactical nuclear weapons to deter Indian conventional operations has been a bluff. That conclusion is dangerous, because if Indian policymakers believe it, they might discount the likelihood of Pakistani nuclear use in the event of conventional military operations, potentially risking calamity. Language: en |
| تدمد: | 1531-4804 0162-2889 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/isec_c_00240 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9d49d70c2d254bccb8a6888eb2f8ffc9 https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_c_00240 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........9d49d70c2d254bccb8a6888eb2f8ffc9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15314804 01622889 |
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| DOI: | 10.1162/isec_c_00240 |