ISSF Article Review 28—'New Delhi's Long Nuclear Journey: How Secrecy and Institutional Roadblocks Delayed India's Weaponization'

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Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Jayita Sarkar reviewed "New Delhi's Long Nuclear Journey: How Secrecy and Institutional Roadblocks Delayed India's Weaponization" by Gaurav Kampani (International Security, Spring 2014).

Gaurav Kampani investigates a crucial research puzzle in nuclear proliferation literature, namely, the possible underpinnings of India's slow weaponization process. Addressing the period 1989-1999, he argues that despite acquiring nuclear weapons in 1989–1990, New Delhi lacked the capability to "deliver them reliably or safely until 1994–95 or possibly 1996."...

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