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Managing Indias Nuclear Forces
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India is now enmeshed in the deterrence gameactively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile materials and strategic technologies. In order to deal with these developments safely and wisely, the nation needs a much more sophisticated and multidisciplinary understanding of the strategic, technological, operational, and cost issues involved in nuclear matters.

In this important book, Indian strategic analyst Verghese Koithara explains and evaluates India's nuclear force management, encouraging a broad public conversation that may act as a catalyst for positive change before the subcontinent experiences unthinkable carnage.

The defense management system of a nuclear power absolutely needs to be sound and thorough. In addition to the considerable demands of managing its nuclear forces, it also must control conventional forces in a manner that forestalls nuclear escalation of a conflict by either side. Expanding and upgrading nuclear forces without enhancing deterrence is dangerous and should be avoided. India's nuclear force management system is grafted onto a woefully inadequate overall system of defense management.

Koithara dissects all of these issues and suggests a way forward, drawing on recent developments in deterrence theory around the world.

Verghese Koithara is an independent strategic analyst whose previous books include Crafting Peace in Kashmir: Through a Realist Lens and Society, State and Security: The Indian Experience. He retired from the Indian Navy as a Vice Admiral in 1998.

This is excellent research by an outstanding practitioner in the intricate world of nuclear policies in South Asia. It becomes more important as it comes from the perspective of India, a new nuclear weapon power with all the challenges of learning anew about deterrence. It highlights the challenges and the structures needed to stabilise the balance. It exposes the issues that have been swept under the carpet in the initial euphoria of breaking the nuclear embargo, providing in the process a practical guide to wise decision making in an increasingly difficult trilateral strategic equation. A must-read for all strategic thinkers and professionals alike, not just in South Asia and China, but in the world.

Major General Dipankar Banerjee, Director,
Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi

This is an outstanding worksubstantively and analyticallyon India's idiosyncratic approach to managing its nuclear forces and deterrence posture. Verghese Koithara brings a practitioner's understanding of how nuclear forces dovetail with India's contemporary security requirements yet suffer from serious managerial and operational shortcomings. His book explains what needs to be done to integrate professional military expertise and operational responsibility with civilianled strategic policy-making to make nuclear deterrence operationally meaningful and maximally stable. It shows how the present system distorts strategic understanding at top policy levels and impedes operational functioning, leaving India ill-prepared for projecting deterrence efficiently. It offers well-crafted proposals to improve India's system, institutionally and organisationally.

Rodney W. Jones, President,
Policy Architects International, Washington, D.C.

Managing India's
Nuclear Forces

Verghese Koithara

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Washington, D.C.

ABOUT BROOKINGS
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Copyright 2012
Verghese Koithara

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Simultaneously published in India by Routledge, 912 Tolstoy House,
15-17 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available
ISBN: 978-0-8157-2266-3 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Printed on acid-free paper

Printed by R. R. Donnelley
Harrisonburg, Virginia

To the precious memory of our beloved son Nikhil

List of Abbreviations

ABM	Anti-Ballistic Missile
ACSA	Acquisition and Cross Service Agreement
AEC	Atomic Energy Commission
AERB	Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
ASW	Anti-Submarine Warfare
ASWAC	Airborne Surveillance Warning and Control system
ATGM	Anti-Tank Guided Missile
ATV	Advanced Technology Vessel
AWACS	Airborne Warning and Control System
BARC	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
BECA	Basic Exchange and Co-operation Agreement
BJP	Bharatiya Janata Party
BMD	Ballistic Missile Defence
C&C	command and control
C-in-C	Commander in Chief
CAS	Chief of Air Staff
CBM	Confidence Building Measure
CCPA	Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs
CCS	Cabinet Committee on Security
CDE	Committee on Defence Expenditure
CDS	Chief of Defence Staff
CEP	Circular Error Probable
CGS	Chief of General Staff
CISC	Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee
CISMOA	Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement
CJCS	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
CMC	Cuban Missile Crisis
COAS	Chief of Army Staff
COMINT	Communications Intelligence
COSC	Chiefs of Staff Committee
CTBT	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
DAE	Department of Atomic Energy
DCC	Defence Committee of the Cabinet
DDF	Department of Defence Finance
DDP	Department of Defence Production
DMC	Defence Minister's Committee
DND	Draft Nuclear Doctrine
DOD	Department of Defence
DOE	Department of Energy
DOS	Department of Space
DPS	Defence Planning Staff
DRD	Department of Defence R&D
DRDO	Defence Research & Development Organisation
EADS	European Aeronautic Defence and Space company
ECC	Emergency Committee of the Cabinet
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