Publication

This publication examines India and China's position on nuclear weapons. Relative latecomers to the nuclear club, these two nations with global aspirations are each modernizing and increasing the size of their nuclear arsenals. As such, they present a very different picture than the older nuclear weapon states, each of which is reducing its weapon stockpiles. Together, the two papers make clear that if the two nuclear superpowers, the US and Russia, make significant progress toward deep reductions in their own arsenals, and then work together in pursuit of multilateral disarmament negotiations, the two Asian nuclear powers are very likely to come to the table as well.