Small increments of stockpile growth and multiple warhead missiles will ratchet up a triangular nuclear competition among China, India and Pakistan, a new book has said while warning that there are no realistic prospects for banning such arsenal.
With China beginning its long-awaited deployment of the DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missile, India and Pakistan are likely to respond by placing multiple warheads atop some of their missiles, the book titled ‘The lure and Pitfalls of MIRVS: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age’ said.
The book, co-edited by Michael Krepon, Co-founder of the Stimson Center, and Shane Mason, says that in the second nuclear age, no less than the first, there are no realistic prospects for banning multiple-warhead missiles. China has started to deploy such missiles, and India and Pakistan are likely to cross this threshold as well.