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Pakistan has managed to maintain a position relative to India which has never completely reflected its deficiencies in size and resources. This has been related largely to Pakistan’s strategic location, and to its effective diplomacy, mainly vis-à-vis the USA, China, and regional including Middle East countries.
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See Shirin Tahir Kheli, The US and Pakistan: The Evolution of an Influence Relationship (New York: Praeger, 1982), p. 134.
L. Spector, Nuclear Proliferation Today, A Carnegie Endowment Book (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), p. 85.
See S. Weissman and H. Krosney, The Islamic Bomb (New York: New York Books, 1981).
See Z. Khalilzad, ‘Pakistan’s nuclear program’, Asian Survey, vol. XVI, no. 6 (June 1976), pp. 580–92, also by the same auther, ‘Pakistan and the bomb, Survival (November–December 1979), vol. XXI, no. 6, pp. 244–50, and M. A. Khan, ‘Nuclear energy and international co-operation’, The Rockefeller Foundation/RIIA Working Paper (September 1977).
See for example Z. Khalilzad, ‘Pakistan’, in J. Goldblat (ed.), Non-proliferation: The Why and the Wherefore, SIPRI (London: Taylor & Francis, 1985), pp. 131–40.
On this issue see W. C. Potter, Nuclear Power and Proliferation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cambridge, MA: Oelgescehlager, Gunn and Haim, 1982).
See T. Cobb in R. W. Jones (ed.), Small Nuclear Forces and US Security Policy (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1984).
For a scholarly analysis of Carter’s non-proliferation policy see M. Brenner, Nuclear power and Non-proliferation: The Remaking of US Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
For background on China’s approach to South Asia and nuclear proliferation see W. Bamds, ‘The impact of the Sino-Soviet dispute on South Asia’, in H. Ellison (ed.), The Sino-Soviet Conflict (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983);
Y. Vertzberger, The Enduring Entente: Sino-Pakistani Relations, 1960–80 (New York: Praeger, 1983); and R. P. Cronin, ‘Prospect for non-proliferation in South Asia’, The Middle East Journal (Autumn 1983).
For further discussion see R. Sutter, ‘The strategic consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia for China’, in N. Joeck (ed.), Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (London: Frank Cass Publishing, 1986), pp. 49–56.
Z. A. Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated (New Delhi: Vikas, 1979), p. 153.
For more detail see Spector, Nuclear Proliferation Today, chapter III, pp. 149–65; D. K. Palit and P. K. S. Namboodiri, Pakistan’s Islamic Bomb (New Delhi: Vikas, 1979), pp. 62–65; Tahir Kheli, The US and Pakistan: The Evolution of an Influence Relationship, p. 89; and Weissman and Krosney, The Islamic Bomb.
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Moshaver, Z. (1991). Pakistan’s Choice: Nuclear Option vs. Nuclear Weapons. In: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in the Indian Subcontinent. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11471-9_9
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