This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.

Atul Mishra

International Relations and Governance Studies

(SoHSS) School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Rajesh Rajagopalan

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