Nuclear Forces in South Asia: Prospects for Arms Control.

The article focuses on the issue about the importance of recognizing the dangers of a nuclear confrontation by India and Pakistan and the need to stabilize their nuclear options. The nuclear forces they are likely to develop is small in size, localized rather than extra-regional, and recessed rather than deployed. In developing the Lahore process, India and Pakistan could agree to place restrictions on specific categories of nuclear weapons, or at least on their deployment. At the international level, the legal regime needs to be reshaped to fit realities and recognize the three de facto nuclear-weapons states which are democratic states that have shown responsible behavior.