Manish Tewari | The deterrence dynamic in India-China-Pak triad
2 years, 6 months ago

Manish Tewari | The deterrence dynamic in India-China-Pak triad

Deccan Chronicle  

Ukraine had the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world when the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991. Both India and China have long been proponents of a No First Use Policy with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. In a subparagraph on Page 39 of its manifesto, it stated: “… BJP will study in detail India’s nuclear doctrine, and revise and update it, to make it relevant to challenges of current times.” In November 2016, former defence minister Manohar Parrikar stoked a controversy when he pontificated, “Why a lot of people say that India has No First Use policy. The hoax can be called off.” In his 2016 book, Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy, Shivshankar Menon, NSA to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former foreign secretary, stated: “There is a potential grey area as to when India would use nuclear weapons first against another nuclear-weapon state. He tweeted, “Pokhran is the area which witnessed Atalji’s firm resolve to make India a nuclear power and yet remain firmly committed to the doctrine of ‘No First Use’.

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How China’s expanding nuclear arsenal calls for India’s deterrence strategy rehaul
1 month ago

How China’s expanding nuclear arsenal calls for India’s deterrence strategy rehaul

Firstpost  

As per estimates, China now possesses roughly 500 nuclear warheads, and numbers and quality are growing faster than the other nuclear weapon powers The Pentagon’s 2023 report to Congress assessed that China now has approximately 500 nuclear warheads for delivery by land-based ballistic missiles, sea-based ballistic missiles, road-mobile systems, and bombers. Nuclear Warhead Stockpile The Pentagon’s 2023 report to Congress …

How return of Donald Trump as POTUS is bad news for Pakistan
1 month, 1 week ago

How return of Donald Trump as POTUS is bad news for Pakistan

Firstpost  

In Trump’s new strategic geopolitical balance sheet, India is a valuable asset, while Pakistan is a manageable liability The return of Donald Trump as the US president is a bad news for Pakistan, as American strategy shifts uncomfortably and unpredictably fast. In Trump’s new strategic geopolitical balance sheet, India is a valuable asset, while Pakistan is a manageable liability. As …

Nuclear Deterrence in a Strategic Labyrinth: Balancing Act in a Triangularized World
2 months ago

Nuclear Deterrence in a Strategic Labyrinth: Balancing Act in a Triangularized World

Deccan Chronicle  

Manish Tewari, a journalist, discusses the impact of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine on nuclear stability. He highlights the Russian President's recent pronouncements about the use of nuclear weapons if attacked, which has raised concerns among NATO leaders. The article also explores the debate surrounding Israel's potential action against Iran's nuclear program, which is ongoing in the wake …

India now has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan
6 months, 1 week ago

India now has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The number of nuclear weapons with India surpassed those with Pakistan in January 2024, said Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in its latest report on Monday. These refer to the nuclear triad of aircraft and land-based missiles and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, More significantly, while China has for the first time started deploying some of its nuclear warheads …

India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan, China records surge in stockpile: Report
6 months, 1 week ago

India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan, China records surge in stockpile: Report

India TV News  

Stockholm: India has overtaken Pakistan in the global race to develop nuclear weapons for the first time, as several countries have ramped up their arsenal as tensions rise across the world. The SIPRI report confirms that all nine nuclear-armed countries - the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel - have continued to …

Pakistan does not adhere to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons policy: ex-Army official
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan does not adhere to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons policy: ex-Army official

The Hindu  

Pakistan does not follow the "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons and the country's deterrence capabilities can respond to all threats from the enemy, a former senior military officer has said, as he clarified Islamabad's stance on the use of atomic weapons. The Dawn newspaper reported that Mr. Kidwai, who has served as the director general of the Strategic …

OPINION | NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NON-VEG: HOW MODI TOOK OPPOSITION TO TASK
8 months, 1 week ago

OPINION | NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NON-VEG: HOW MODI TOOK OPPOSITION TO TASK

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at I.N.D.I.A bloc for the CPI manifesto which calls for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Though Tejashwi claimed that the act took place a day before the sacred Navratra fasting began, BJP leaders took him to task for offending the sentiments of Hindus. Modi clarified in his speech that there was …

Manish Tewari | India lost land at LAC, step up strategic game
1 year, 7 months ago

Manish Tewari | India lost land at LAC, step up strategic game

Deccan Chronicle  

In the April of 2020, the People’s Liberation Army of China transgressed across a broad swathe of Indian territory across what is the Line of Actual Control in violation of an architecture of border management covenants put in place since 1993. This situation has happened with Y-nallah at Galwan where we were forced to move back to Camp 01 without …

Manish Tewari | Can India ever outdo China diplomatically?
1 year, 8 months ago

Manish Tewari | Can India ever outdo China diplomatically?

Deccan Chronicle  

Seven years ago, in the winter of 2016, news broke of Saudi Arabia having executed 47 prisoners. Since 2016, relations between the two Islamic nations — Saudi Arabia the principle Sunni State that is home to the two most holiest shrines in Islam and Iran the major Shia nation and the vortex of the Shia Crescent — had soured. The …

Manish Tewari | An encirclement India must avoid at all costs
2 years, 5 months ago

Manish Tewari | An encirclement India must avoid at all costs

Deccan Chronicle  

While India has been distracting itself with cynical battles over identity, religion, accentuated hate speech, proscribing freedom of speech and expression and playing cynical state government toppling games, there is a new world order underpinned by new alliances that is evolving. The following text in the document says it all: “Some actors representing but the minority on the international scale …

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response
3 years ago

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

Deccan Chronicle  

Certain paragraphs from my recently published and released book 10 Flash Points 20 Years National Security Situations that Impacted India have created a brouhaha with the BJP even holding a press conference nine days before the formal unveiling of the book. It is these reasons and, above all, the imperatives of political messaging for the current dispensation that since the …

Manish Tewari | Acche Din: No one ever said it would be this hard
3 years, 6 months ago

Manish Tewari | Acche Din: No one ever said it would be this hard

Deccan Chronicle  

The NDA/BJP government’s seven years tenure has been underpinned by a hodgepodge of grandiloquent pronouncements. Social cohesion During the seven years in power the NDA/BJP government has turned the idea of India on its head. External relations The NDA/BJP government’s cynical use of foreign policy as an exercise in personal brand building has had catastrophic consequences for the nation. This …

India reaffirms its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons
4 years, 2 months ago

India reaffirms its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: India overnight Saturday reiterated its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons and its long-standing commitment to universal nuclear disarmament aimed at complete elimination of atomic weapons. In a statement to the High-level Meeting to Commemorate and Promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said, “India espouses the …

Pakistan still has more nuclear weapons, China twice as India | SIPRI report
4 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan still has more nuclear weapons, China twice as India | SIPRI report

India Today  

India stands seventh among the nine countries armed with nuclear weapons in terms of inventory of warheads. Though SIPRI Year Book 2020 underlines lack of transparency about actual inventory of nuclear warheads, but it believes India increased its nuclear weapon count in 2019 from 130-140 to 150 warheads. Pakistan ranks sixth, with 160 nuclear warheads, just above India among the …

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