Foreign Affairs
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Ashley Tellis' new book, Striking Asymmetries, assesses the implications of Beijing’s nuclear breakout from vantage point of rivalries between China, India, and Pakistan.
Tellis: China and Pakistan are revisionist powers seeking to alter the existing order, while India remains content with status quo.
The three Asian rivals have not found themselves caught up in a nuclear arms race, he says.
Islamabad believes it must be able to inflict greater destruction on India in a retaliatory strike than India will inflict on it.
Pakistan also hopes that its nuclear forces prevent India from undertaking large-scale military action against it in response to Islamabad’s ongoing support for militant groups in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Author: Beijing's growing arsenal will not necessarily place India's security at greater risk.
The threat of a Chinese preemptive strike may compel India to develop an effective early warning system.
New Delhi would also have to establish a new command-and-control system to direct the actions of its nuclear submarines.
India has only conducted a handful of nuclear tests, not enough to validate its thermonuclear designs to offer high confidence that these weapons will perform as designed.
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