Indo-Pak Tactical Missiles : Risk Dangerous Miscalculation

Contents: Preface. 1. India and Pakistan precision strike tactical Missiles. 2. Nuclear risk reduction measures between India and Pakistan. 3. Indian Missiles. 4. Pakistani nuclear strikes on tactical targets. 5. Nuclear risk reduction. 6. Tactical nuclear weapons and risk dangers. 7. India’s nuclear weapons and missile programme. 8. Missile Defence. Bibliography. Index. 

India and Pakistan see their pursuit of better precision-strike tactical missiles as protecting them from coercion by the other side, but in reality they are creating more possibilities for dangerous strategic miscalculation. There is a special danger of nuclear conflict breaking out in South Asia. This is not simply Western propaganda but simple common sense. Nuclear weapons are most likely to be used in wartime or near-wartime conditions when mutual suspicions and tension are greatest. It is the continuous hot-cold war that has been going on between India and Pakistan for 55 years, and which shows no signs of diminishing, that makes the face-off between these two nuclear equipped rivals so serious. Pakistan’s development of short-range missiles address three major concerns emanating from India, one the rising conventional asymmetry in view of ever escalating defense budgets by India, Two, offensive doctrines postulated by India in the nuclear overhang, and three development of ballistic missile defense.