{"title":"Accidental/Inadvertent Indian Missile Launch and Procedural Arms Control in South Asia","authors":"Julian Spencer-Churchill, Nasir Mehmood","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2025.2494870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2025.2494870","url":null,"abstract":"Arms control sceptics claim that arms control is either impossible in hostile rivalries or unnecessary in confrontations where disputes are being resolved. We propose five arms control measures, including training alerts, no travel zones, declaration on principles of training standards, incident notification, and no-testing moratoria in operational deployment areas in South Asia. To test the validity of these five arms control measures, we apply these measures to the 9 March 2022 incident of the accidental/inadvertent launch of an Indian BrahMos cruise missile into Pakistan. Next, we survey past and current arms control developments in South Asia, and the impact of the contemporary political atmosphere on the likelihood of future arrangements. We then analyze a relationship between nuclear deterrence theory and nuclear use risks in South Asia including accidental or inadvertent ones.","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"8 1","pages":"265-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147886866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synergistic Effects of Deterrence by Denial and Safeguards in the Biological Weapons Convention: Building on the History of International Nuclear Safeguards","authors":"Kazuko Hikawa","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2401639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2401639","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of deterrence by denial has been introduced in relation to biosecurity. The goal of deterrence by denial in biosecurity extends beyond dissuading attacks. It also encompasses the protect...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limits of Anti-Nuclear Critique in Pakistan","authors":"Sadia Tasleem, M. V. Ramana","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2391136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2391136","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan has a long history of social movements, some of which have challenged the military’s domination. However, apart from a short period after 1998 nuclear weapon tests by India and Pakistan, t...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested Nuclear Sharing in Belgium: Domestic Political Dynamic for the Nuclear Weapons Ban","authors":"Hartwig Hummel","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2385171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2385171","url":null,"abstract":"The successful conclusion of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has challenged the global nuclear order, but was dependent on bypassing the nuclear weapon states (NWS) and thei...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Logic (or Illogic?) of Japan’s Aversion to TPNW and Charting a Path Forward","authors":"Michiru Nishida","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2379085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2379085","url":null,"abstract":"Japan, the only country to have experienced atomic bombs during wartime, is the only one among the US allies to have positively evaluated the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at ...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuclear-Conventional Entanglement in Northeast Asia: The Case for Crisis Management Interoperability","authors":"Benjamin Zala","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2370108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2370108","url":null,"abstract":"The dangers associated with the entanglement of nuclear and conventional forces have become an area of increasing concern. In this article, I survey the growing nuclear-conventional entanglement ri...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141719667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia","authors":"Shatabhisha Shetty","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2370453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2370453","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarises the joint collaborative project between the Nautilus Institute, the Research Center for Nuclear Weapon Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), the Asia Pacific Leadership Netw...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Empirical Insights into Irreversibility in Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament","authors":"Hassan Elbahtimy","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2371546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2371546","url":null,"abstract":"This second special issue on nuclear irreversibility shifts the focus from the conceptual to the empirical. It aims to explore how dynamics linked to irreversibility have played out in practice by ...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staying the Course: Lessons from South Africa for Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament","authors":"Joelien Pretorius","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2368297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2368297","url":null,"abstract":"To conceptualise irreversibility of nuclear disarmament, it is better to think about nuclear disarmament as a historical process than a historical moment. I apply a path-dependency lens to do so in...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Irreversibility in Nuclear Arms Control: Lessons from the US-Soviet/Russian Arms Control Process","authors":"Amy F. Woolf","doi":"10.1080/25751654.2024.2359229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2024.2359229","url":null,"abstract":"The United States and Soviet Union/Russian Federation signed several arms control treaties that mandated reductions in their numbers of deployed nuclear weapons. These treaties outlined complex tec...","PeriodicalId":32607,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}