,Enhancing Nuclear Security in the Counter-Terrorism Struggle: India and Pakistan

Enhancing Nuclear Security in the Counter-Terrorism Struggle: India and Pakistan


 

Publication Date: July 2002

Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Author(s): Rebecca Longsworth; Rose Gottemoeller

Research Area: Military and defense

Type: Report

Abstract:

This paper reports the results of a study of the potential to apply the principles and practice of threat reduction cooperation to countries beyond the territory of the former Soviet Union. The study focused on the application of concepts and tools used in the former Soviet Union to the region of South Asia. The research was designed to explore what might be done cooperatively to enhance the security of the nuclear assets of India and Pakistan, lest they fall into the hands of terrorists or leaders of rogue states who would use them to threaten other states or peoples.