Statements

Research & Analysis

Historical Background

News Coverage

Nuclear Proliferation

Nuclear Issues in India and Pakistan:
Selected Internet Resources

Statements and position papers

• India's Bharatiya Janata Party's page on nuclear issues is at the official BJP web site.
• Indian Embassy's page on the nuclear tests, including speeches and interviews with government officials, and press releases.
• Joint statement against nuclear tests and weapons from retired Pakistani and Indian Armed Forces personnel
• Journalists Against Nuclear Weapons
• Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament, includes links to papers, speeches, position papers.
• Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, an anti-war group.
• Pakistani government site, including fact sheets and position papers.
• South Asia Citizens Web, an independent web site dedicated to non-secularism, discussion and democracy.
• South Asians Against Nukes, papers, statements and petitions against nuclearization in South Asia, as well as news coverage of the opposition to nuclear testing.
• United Nations resolutions and reports relating to South Asian nuclear issues, via the Global Policy Forum
• US Department of State's Bureau of South Asian Affairs, as well as India and Pakistan information.

Research and Analysis

• Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups at Columbia University has several position papers on nuclear issues
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, a center for India's nuclear research, near Bombay.
• Brookings Institution's India/SouthAsia Project
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, includes special collections of background information on nuclear proliferation in India and Pakistan, as well as statistics on India's nuclear forces
• Carnegie Endowment for Peace has a special South Asia section
• Center for Defence and International Security Studies, based at Lancaster University, United Kingdom, reports regularly on South Asia nuclear issues
• Center for Non-Proliferation Studies: the Indian & Pakistani Nuclear Tests has an excellent list of government, NGO, and media links on the tests and their history.
• Council for a Livable World, an alliance of arms control and disarmament organizations, has an extensive reporting about the nuclear issues in South Asia
• Federation of American Scientists covers the history and politics of both India's and Pakistan's nuclear programs.
• Global Beat: South Asian Security, an excellent list of resources for journalists and scholars, including background articles on the area, as well as a list with phone numbers and email addresses. Provided by the Global Reporting Network, a program of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Global Policy Forum, an non-profit organization with consultative status at the United Nations, has an index of UN documents on nuclear issues in South Asia
• India's Obsession, Our Choice by the late academic and peace activist Eqbal Ahmed
• Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, an Indian think tank on security policy
• Institute for Science and International Security has a page of Video, Maps and Satellite Images of Pakistan's test sites
• International Crisis Group's report, India/Pakistan Relations and Kashmir: Steps Toward Peace (2004)
• International law and India's nuclear tests is covered in American Society of International Law's India's Nuclear Tests by Frederic Kergis (1998)
• Investigating the Allegations of Indian Nuclear Test Preparations in the Rajasthan Desert by Vipin Gupta (Sandia Labs) and Frank Pabian (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) (1996). 
• Seismic data (1998) from the Indian underground nuclear tests and the Pakistaini underground nuclear tests
• India-Pakistan Nuclear Central brings together many resources, including maps of each country's nuclear infrastructure, includes a wide range of links to both government and independent sources
• Monterey Institute's Resources on India and Pakistan
• Natural Resources Defense Council on The Consequences of Nuclear Conflict between India and Pakistan
• The Nuclear Weapons Archive, a guide to nuclear nations and their history, includes background materials on India and Pakistan.
• South Asia After the Tests: Where do we go from here? A roundtable of Indian academics, politicians, journalists on the tests, hosted by the Asia Society.
• South Asian Nuclear Dialogue, a site sponsored by the Nautilus Institute, to help facilitate dialogue and the exchange of research on South Asian nuclear issues. Includes an essay on the ramifications of 9/11, Walk Softly in Nuclear South Asia.
• Stimston Institute's Regional Security in South Asia
• The Wages of Armageddon by Rammanohar Reddy is an assessment of the costs of the nuclear weapons program in India.

Historical and Political Background

• The Cultural Politics of Indian Nuclearism, by Vinay Lal, Professor of History, UCLA
• India and Pakistan: an Asian nuclear peace? by Armando F. Mastrapa, St. John's University, New York
• Library of Congress Country Study: India
• Library of Congress Country Study: Pakistan
• CIA World Factbook: India and CIA World Factbook: Pakistan.
• SARAI, the South Asia part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, is a vast compendium of information on each South Asian country

News Coverage

• Anumukti: a journal devoted to non-nuclear India
• BBC News site on "Asia's Nuclear Challenge" and the BBC's summary of world reaction to the tests.
• CNN India & Pakistan
• Dawn [Pakistan]
• The Hindu [India]
• Hindustan Times [India]
• India Today, including an interview with former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Indian Express
• International News/Jang [Pakistan]
• The Nation [Pakistan]
• The News [Pakistan]
• Rediff on the Net, an Indian news service, see also their Special: The Bomb
• Times of India
  

Related Information about Nuclear Proliferation

• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation in Vienna, Austria provides information on the Comprehensive Test Ban.
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, full-text provided by the US Arms Control and Defence Agency.
• Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-profit group opposed to nuclear weapons development
• United Nations Disarmament Department, includes texts of resolutions and reports from the world body
  
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