Pakistani nuclear doctrine
The Pakistani nuclear doctrine regulates the behavior of the nuclear power Pakistan with its nuclear weapons in the event of a war, especially with neighboring India, which also has nuclear weapons.
The nuclear doctrine assumes the military superiority of the Indian armed forces and, above all, the inexhaustibility of their personnel reserves. It therefore provides for Pakistan to carry out a nuclear first strike in a situation of defensive distress in conventional warfare . However, this presupposes that all previous defense measures by the Pakistani armed forces have failed. Furthermore, it must be foreseeable that further defense measures will not be effective and that India actually threatens to put Pakistani territory into existential trouble.
See also
Web links
- History of Pakistan's nuclear program at the Federation of American Scientists (English)
- Sardar FS Lodi: Pakistan's Nuclear Doctrine , Defense Journal of April 1999 (English)
- Piper Hodson: Pakistani Nuclear Doctrine: A Theoretical View