Year : 2023, Volume : 27, Issue : 4
First page : ( 62) Last page : ( 80)
Print ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937. Published online : 2023  13.

Sino-Pakistani nuclear collaboration the US assesment

Kharay Chirmi, Srivastava Kavya

Online Published on 13 February, 2024.

Abstract

The article sums up a study of the collaboration between China and Pakistan on nuclear technology applications in the context of US relations with Pakistan and taking into account Pakistan’s fear of India. The non-proliferation agenda of the United States was derailed by the close association between Beijing and Islamabad even though Pakistan remained an American ally throughout the Cold War period and provided essential support to the US in the proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The authors show that the evolving strategic equation between the USA, the USSR, and the Peoples Republic of China facilitated Pakistan’s development of atomic weapons and allowed it to proliferate them to various countries despite half-hearted Wastern attempts to sanction the country.

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