... United States. States want to know the international cost of developing such weapons. Most countries, however, will decide whether to pursue nuclear capability based on their perceptions of their own interests, which depends on their region. 1.4 It is important issue because if India and Pakistan demonstrate that nuclear weapons provide prestige and power to a country, other countries might want to do the same. 1.5 "India, Pakistan and Israel, countries which outside the traditional nonproliferation regime that are generally known to own nuclear weapons are in their own category, and their actions would have little if any affect on other countries".(1) 1.6 Politically, Nuclear weapons might have deterred war in the short term, but they have in no way improved the relationship between India and Pakistan. The own of nuclear weapons has increased nationalist attitudes that are incompatible with deterrence, in addition the countries feel they can use their nuclear arsenals for ...

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