TY - BOOK AU - Thakur,Ramesh Chandra TI - Nuclear weapons and international security: collected essays T2 - Routledge global security studies SN - 9781138787551 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Nuclear arms control KW - Nuclear disarmament KW - Nuclear nonproliferation KW - Security, International N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the challenge of nuclear weapons -- Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament : can the power of ideas tame the power of the state? -- The nuclear debate -- Envisioning nuclear futures -- The last bang before a total ban : French nuclear testing in the Pacific -- The nuclear option in India's security policy -- The South Asian nuclear challenge -- The inconsequential gains and lasting insecurities of India's nuclear weaponization -- Follow the yellowcake road : balancing Australia's security, commercial and bilateral national interests against international anti-nuclear interests -- Capping North Korea's weapons and Iran's capability -- Stepping stones to a nuclear-weapon-free world -- NPT regime change : has the good become the enemy of the best? -- The global governance architecture of nuclear security -- The problem of nuclear weapons and what to do about it ER -