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by Shehzad H. Qazi
statement by Pakistan's then Prime program, especially regarding PakiMinister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto proclaim- stan's force posture.
ing that if India acquired the bomb, so
Shehzad H. Qazi is a research associate
at the Institute for Social Policy and
Understanding.
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intimately involved in the program,
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ture" - that is, the beliefs, values, and
the perception that nuclear weapons program has faced two key challenges: the absence of a formally declared
were a national necessity.
But between the lines of the
nuclear doctrine, including ambiguity
about the
"redline risks" that could
book is a slightly different story:
that
Pakistan's ten-point nuclear docAs Scott Sagan, a renowned scholis India-focused, and has three
ar of nuclear weapons, hastrine
argued,
major principles: minimum credcountries acquire nuclear weapons
because individuals within the nucle-
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weapons in the event of an Indian assessment tools, such as Personnel
invasion, the sizable destruction of its
and Human Reliability Programs, to
armed forces, or Indian-perpetrated screen personnel, and created a secupolitical destabilization and economic
forty-five years after the weapons proar weapons program, ranging from
gic Plans Division (SPD) began using framed by an insider account of PakiJULY/AUGUST 2013 91
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stani decisionmaking that can help
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