Pakistan’s Nuclear Development

Abstract

Pakistan’s nuclear activities have caused greater concern among proliferation observers than India’s. This is not because Pakistan has been technically nearer to weapons acquisition than India. Nor is it because Pakistan has displayed greater interest in acquiring such weapons than India. On the contrary, as Chapters 2 and 4 maintained, there has been both a more institutionalized bomb lobby and a far more advanced nuclear capability in India than in Pakistan. Diplomatically, too, as will be seen in the following chapters, Pakistan, like India, has repeatedly denied any weapons intentions and at times was even more favourable to non-proliferation proposals than India.