The Cold War bestowed on it the quality of grand strategy linking as it did, deterrence with arms control and strategic stability. Wherever and whenever an adversary required the ability to counter superior capabilities, arms control acquired the shape of strategic stability through diplomatic negotiations.

The nuclear deterrence has been unergoing changes due to increasing vulnerability of states and society in a globalising and increasingly vulnerability of states and society in a globalising and increasingly independent world. Recognising the fundamentally political nature of the role of nuclear weapons, China and India evolved an approach to nuclear deterrence quite different from that adopted by others.

And they seem to have succeded equally well so far, with unquestionably lower costs and risks. Written by two leading experts in the field, this book explores the changes taking place in nuclear deterrence and diplomacy at the beginning of the 21st century, especially as they relate to India and its security.

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Contributors to the volume--ranging from senior diplomats and academics to pioneer scientists and renowned security analysts--include Arundhati Ghose, R. B.

Grover, A. Vinod Kumar, Amitav Mallik, C.

Raja Mohan, Rajiv Nayan, Rajesh Rajagopalan, Samuel C. Rajiv, Manpreet Sethi, M.

R. Srinivasan, K.

Subrahmanyam, and Arun Vishwanathan. top (less)