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India’s Nuclear Arms Control Quandary

Published:2010-03 Issue:2 Volume:66 Page:27-36
ISSN:0096-3402
Container-title:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
language:en
Short-container-title:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Author:

Rajaraman Ramamurti¹

Affiliation:

1. Ramamurti Rajaraman is emeritus professor of physics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He would like to thank Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, where this article was written, for its hospitality, and Frank von Hippel, Hal Feiveson, Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana, and A. H. Nayyar for valuable discussions.

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Subject

Political Science and International Relations

Link

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2968/066002004

Reference16 articles.

1. Embassy of India, "Draft Report of National Security Advisory Board on Indian Nuclear Doctrine," August 17, 1999. Available at http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/CTBT/nuclear_doctrine_aug_17_1999.html .

2. The Cabinet Committee on Security Reviews, "The Cabinet Committee on Security Reviews Operationalization of India's Nuclear Doctrine," January 4, 2003. Available at http://meaindia.nic.in/pressrelease/2003/01/04pr01.htm .

3. For details of this argument, see R. Rajaraman, "Cap the Nuclear Arsenal Now," The Hindu , January 25, 2005; "Towards De-Nuclearisation of South Asia," discussion paper, Second Pugwash Workshop on South Asian Security, Geneva, Switzerland, May 16-18, 2003.

4. For details of these calculations see R. Rajaraman, "Estimates of India's Fissile Material Stock," Science & Global Security , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 74-86. This work updates the earlier calculations by Zia Mian, A. H. Nayyar, R. Rajaraman, and M. V. Ramana, "Fissile Materials in South Asia: The Implications of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal," Science & Global Security , vol. 14, nos. 2 and 3, pp. 117-145.

5. In reference 4, a total of 12.7-12.8 tons was quoted as the amount up to mid-2007. To this, I add an approximate 1.2 tons as produced during 2007 and 2008.