By Dr. Hasan Askari Rizvi Pakistan’s nuclear weapons have a narrow security focus of protecting Pakistan’s national security and policy options against India’s superiority of conventional security apparatus, its flourishing nuclear weapons and the delivery system. Had India not opted for nuclear explosions and weaponization in May 1998, Pakistan was expected to continue with its
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By Christine M. Leah A nuclear weapons ban, whilst probably a noble and humanitarian goal, reflects misplaced idealism and an…
By Saima Aman Sial At the 2017 Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., an MIT scholar, talking on causes and consequences of nuclear first-use In South Asia stated that unlike the “conventional wisdom” about possible first use in South Asia, it may be India that uses its weapons first in a decapitating first strike against Pakistan. The revelation,
by Muhammad Sarmad Zia The emerging defence co-operation between Pakistan and Russia, the erstwhile Cold War antagonists may seem rather odd in the backdrop of Russia’s 70 year-long close strategic partnership with India, a longstanding adversary of Pakistan. But this is a reality that defies conventional wisdom and it is being eyed with interest and
A roundtable discussion was organized by the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) titled “Science and Diplomacy” on February 27, 2017 at the CISS office Islamabad. The guestspeaker at the occasion was Mr. Kamran Akhtar, Director General Disarmament at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Executive Director CISS Ambassador Sarwar Naqvi in the chair. Other
During 2016, CISS held a wide range of activities; conferences, workshops, round-table discussions, research and publications. During the year we continued our partnership and foreign outreach with the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, and made new contacts with other established international think tanks such as United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Atlantic
by Maryam Zubair North Korea recently conducted an MRBM (Medium Range Ballistic Missile) test with a range of 310 miles…
Lecture delivered by Dr. Naeem Salik CISS Senior Research Fellow on ” Introduction to Nuclear Technology,” in Air War College…
Summary: A round table briefing with select media personnel was organized by the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) at…
Last week, Pakistan successfully test-fired an indigenously-developed submarine launched cruise missile called Babur-3, with a range of 450 km, providing Pakistan, which thus far relied only on land/air-based nuclear capabilities, a credible second-strike capability. Although the platform on which the system would be deployed hasn’t been publicly announced, conjecture is it would most likely be
