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Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia.(Book review)

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia by S. Paul Kapur. Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 2007. 280 pp. $24.95.

Scholars often assume that after decades of intense study during the Cold War, the political effects of nuclear weapons are well...

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...understood. The innovative arguments in S. Paul Kapur's Dangerous Deterrent, which explores the consequences of India's and Pakistan's acquisition of nuclear weapons on conventional conflict between them, suggest that much room remains for insightful scholarship.

Kapur begins by using statistical analysis to establish a strong correlation between nuclear weapons proliferation and conventional conflict between the two sides, a welcome methodological addition to a...

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