Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: the Realist Foundations of Strategy. From: Parameters | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Quester, George H. | COPYRIGHT 2003 U.S. Army War College. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Bharat Karnad. (New Delhi, India: MacMillan India Limited, 2002). 724 pages. $37.50.

For at least three reasons, this will be a most valuable book for anyone concerned about the nuclear confrontation in South Asia.

To begin, the author was a member of India's first National Security Advisory Board, and was involved in the development of the 1999 Nuclear Draft Doctrine (included as an appendix in the book); he is today one of the more visible younger defense...

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