Theorizing the Essentials of Nuclear Revolution in South Asia

The fundamental rationale of this chapter is to explore the evolving prospects of Indian deterrent force posture in South Asia primarily under the essentials of nuclear revolution and more specifically with regard to its induction of sophisticated technologies, restructuring of its deterrent force postures, and the evolving competing military strategies. This chapter under the rubric of nuclear revolution broadly asks: how India’s evolving deterrent force posture is perceived in Pakistan that in turn enables the latter to produce effective countermeasures bringing the Cold War-type Mutual Assured Destruction and creating mutual vulnerabilities into play in South Asia. Also, it attempts to relate the applicability of theory of nuclear revolution in South Asia and the lessons the South Asian nuclear rivals may learn.