Why is India slowly distancing itself from its nuclear 'no-first use' policy, while Pakistan builds its conventional capacity to sustain non-nuclear conflict?
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan caused an uproar with comments that were reported by Reuters India as a promise by Islamabad to not use nuclear weapons first in any conflict with India.
The strategic rationale behind Pakistan’s first-use policy is deterrence. Paradoxically, by not ruling out the use of disproportionate force, India wouldNuclear strategy is often built around the core tenet of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ , which develops second-strike capacities. Even in the case that a country’s leadership is wiped out by a ‘first-strike’, missile silos would automatically fire on predetermined targets in retaliation, ensuring no clear victor.
Tactical nukes are portable, lightweight nuclear bombs that are small enough to be transported discreetly, and can be detonated against a numerically-advanced conventional enemy with devastating explosive and radiological effects. Their ready deployment ensures that Pakistan’s military is quickly able to negate overwhelming numerical disadvantages, or at least deny a conventional army access in the case of a full-scale invasion.
Many accuse India of only paying lip-service to the no-first use policy, given that both neighbouring Pakistan and China have adopted first-use policies. In it’s 2003 According to Saad, this means Pakistan’s ability to keep a conflict conventional is much higher today than it was in the early 2000s.Contrary to reports, Prime Minister Khan didn’t revise Pakistan’s long standing nuclear policy. So what did he actually say?of Khan’s statement to the International Sikh Convention in Lahore shows that the widespread news headline is based on a mistranslation.
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