Samina Ahmed
Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
July, 1999
Dangerous Games: The Nuclear Factor Adds an Alarming Note to the Game of Brinkmanship on the LOC
Op-Ed, Newsline, issue 11, volume 10
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
April 1, 1999
Pakistan's Nuclear Weapon's Program: Turning Points and Nuclear Choices
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 23
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
The author examines Pakistan's motivations for responding to the Indian nuclear weapons tests with its own series of tests on May 28 and 30.
Military Confidence Building in South Asia: Potential, Possibilities, and Limitations
Book Chapter
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
August 8, 2002
Fragile Base of Democracy in Pakistan
Book Chapter
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
December, 2001
Countering Nuclear Risks In South Asia
Report
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
March 2001
Policy Report. South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads: US Policy Options Towards South Asian Nuclear Proliferation: The Role of Sanctions and Incentives
Report
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
March 2001
South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads
Report
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
October 2000
Security Dilemmas of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
Journal Article, Third World Quarterly, issue 5, volume 21
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
Pakistan's security environment has deteriorated through its adoption of a declared nuclear weapons posture in May 1998. Internal fissures have widened along regional and sectarian lines as the Pakistani economy falters, unable to sustain even limited external sanctions following decades of internal mismanagement. Tensions with India have also increased as Pakistan's security managers adopt interventionist policies, based on a misplaced belief in the deterrent value of nuclear weapons. The international community, in particular, the USA's failure to reverse South Asian nuclear proliferation, has emboldened Indian advocates of nuclear deployment. If India deploys nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, Pakistan will follow suit. Operation-ready nuclear weapons will increase the prospects of an India - Pakistan conflict that could assume a nuclear dimension. Pakistan's nuclear weapons capability will not prevent an Indian conventional attack nor will the presence of nuclear weapons deter an Indian accidental, unauthorised or preventive nuclear attack. Changed domestic and external priorities alone can buttress Pakistani security.
February, 2000
Pakistan's Nuclear Weapon's Program: Moving Forward or Tactical Retreat?
Journal Article, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame - Occasional Paper Series, issue 2, volume 18
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
February, 2000
Preventing a Nuclear Arms Race in South Asia: US Policy Options
Journal Article, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame - Occasional Paper Series, issue 2, volume 18
By Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002
