The contents of this book: 1. Security in the Indian Ocean: An Overview 2. Cooperative Security: Paradigm for the 21st Century 3. Comprehensive Security in Indian Ocean Region 4. Indian Ocean in Australia's Security Policies
India s nuclear tests on May 11 & 13,1998 ended the country s three decade old, self-imposed restraint on its emergence as a nuclear power. India announced that it was now a nuclear weapon state. A new phase in India s security calculus, therefore, has begun. This volume attempts to explore and explain the whole range of issues related to Nuclearisation, in order to extrapolate logical policy p…