Ashley Tellis, a US expert? This Indian is an expert in lies and stupidity. If a dude is incapable of understanding the basic cause-effect rule, who calls that dummy an expert. Pakistan's nukes are the result of Indian rogue and ruthless behavior. Pakistan did not introduce nukes in the region. Neither did we brought missiles in this part of the world. But when Indians did that through cheating, stealing, and lying, we had to safeguard our freedom. Does that represent a destabilizing effect. I wish some could tell the definition of destabilizing to this dude. The fact of the matter is that India used to coerce and blackmail Pakistan through overt and covert wars. Since Pakistan attained nukes, coward Indians are scared to the their core. This Indian pseudo expert is trying to portray Pakistan's nukes as a negative factor. The world, however, knows that the nukes have acted as weapons of peace and proved to be a huge positive factor since early eighties. Only idiots like Ashley Tellis are trying spread lies and non-sense. It seems Pak nukes are their nemesis and peace in the region is their problem. Death, destruction, and terrorism are their favorite.Nuclear Pakistan has destabilising effects: US expert
Nuclear weapons in Pakistan's hands have "corrosively destabilising" effects in the region and provide a license for the country's sub-conventional wars against India, a top American expert has said.
"Unfortunately nuclear weapons in Pakistani hands have had larger and more corrosively destabilising effects: they have enabled Pakistan to pursue its revanchist aims of recovering the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir by force, or more specifically, by unleashing state-supported terrorism against India in the hope of weakening Indian control over the contested territories," said Ashley Tellis from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In an interview to The Cipher Brief, Tellis said this stratagem is based on the assumption that India will be unable to retaliate against Pakistan conventionally for fear of sparking a nuclear holocaust.
"Pakistan's nuclear weapons, then, are intended not merely to provide deterrence against Indian attacks, but more ambitiously, a license for Pakistan's sub-conventional wars against India," Tellis said in response to a question.
"This behaviour, flowing from Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons, is what makes deterrence in South Asia more unstable than it would otherwise be— if Pakistan's strategic objectives were as conservative as India's," he said.
© pti Pakistan's Shaheen II nuclear-capable missile. In terms of estimated warhead production, Pakistan can produce anywhere from 14-27 warheads annually, whereas India can only produce 2-5 warheads per year (Source: AP Photo)
This dynamic, in its totality, suggests that India's approach to nuclear deterrence is closer to that of the United States: both nations view their nuclear weapons primarily as deterrents against nuclear attacks by others, he observed.
"Pakistan's behaviour, however, exemplifies nuclear coercion rather than simply deterrence: to that degree, it mimics Russian behaviour more than it does the US practice of deterrence," Tellis said.
In a separate paper, Will Edwards, International Producer with The Cipher Brief, said Pakistan has long viewed nuclear weapons as a hedge against Indian aggression in disputed territories and a counterweight to India's conventional military superiority.
The difference is that now Pakistan has chosen to outstrip India's nuclear forces by drastically increasing fissile materials production and to employ smaller, tactical nuclear devices in a bid to counteract India's widening conventional supremacy, he wrote.
Currently, Pakistan out produces India in fissile material at a ratio of 4:1.
In terms of estimated warhead production, Pakistan can produce anywhere from 14-27 warheads annually, whereas India can only produce 2-5 warheads per year, he said.
http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world...-effects-us-expert/ar-BBtvoRI?ocid=spartandhp
The US state department may disagree with you, maybe....
Nisha Desai Biswal
Nisha Desai Biswal is an Indian-American who is Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the United States Department of State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisha_Desai_Biswal
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Looks more like an Ashwin than an Ashley.
The US state department may disagree with you, maybe....
Nisha Desai Biswal
Nisha Desai Biswal is an Indian-American who is Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the United States Department of State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisha_Desai_Biswal
