Sannia Abdullah
"Failing to convince the world of its narrative, particularly in the midst of diplomatic isolation, Iranian policy relied on the subjective norm, the third type (what a state thinks that other states think it should do)."
"Not only Pakistan, India has also overplayed its security obsession vis-a-vis China and further complicated the prospects for arms control by involving China in strategic triangle. It is pertinent to reiterate that the acquisition of numerical parity is only relevant for a nuclear weapon state that has adopted a doctrine of nuclear war fighting."
"The past fifteen years of overt nuclearization have seen technological maturation and nuclear modernization as a central element of an arms race which is consistently being fuelled by the pull of emerging weapon technologies that are now determining the security calculus of decision-makers in India and Pakistan."