Reading: Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream

A India China Relations

Ye Zhingjia is a long serving officer in the Chinese military and his views range from his observations on the Sino - Indian war of 1962 to the nuclear tests in 1998. The article is insightful and also helps understand the nature of decision making in the Indian political setup. He also attributes to the existence of a trust deficit that has plagued bilateral relations for close to 60 years. 

A Strategic Threats and Nuclear Weapons: India, China and Pakistan

Kanti Bajpai deftly posits the scenario of irrelevance of nuclear weapons in the above article. Initially, Kanti takes a moral standpoint against the use of nuclear weapons. Further on, he argues on the lack of a coherent logic that has guided India's politicians and other parties on the nuclear issue. Citing the miscalculations by the polity on the Pak - China axis, he propounds that South Asia would have been better off without the nuclearization of India and Pakistan. The nuclear deterrence logic has only compounded the strife that existed between India and Pakistan, and has fomented further confusion and insecurity.