Product DescriptionIn this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America’s parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s. The update looks at recent nuclear dealings between India and the United States, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2005 visit to America. Under the highly controversial agreement that emerged, the United States would give India access to U.S. nuclear technology and conventional weapons systems. In exchange, India would place its civilian nuclear program under international monitoring and continue the ban on nuclear testing. Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, And the Bomb:…. Read more

N.Y. car bomb plot adds pressure on Pakistan U.S. claims that the Pakistani Taliban were behind last week’s failed car bombing in Times Square add pressure on Pakistan’s… Read more on Deseret…. Read more

Pakistan native admits to Times Square bomb plot Seized from a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp… Read more on Deseret…. Read more

Product DescriptionIn May 1998, India and Pakistan openly tested nuclear weapons, putting to rest years of speculation about whether they had developed the technology to do so. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia’s new nuclear era, eumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories about how these weapons have transformed the region and what such patterns mean for the next proliferators. Ganguly begins with an outcome-based approach that emphasizes the results of militarized conflict. He believes the deterrent effects of nuclear weapons have prevented Indo-Pakistani disputes from turning into full-scale war. Kapur…. Read more

Bomb kills child at Pakistan school: officials An eight-year-old boy was killed and at least ten people were injured Monday when a bomb exploded outside a high school in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said. Read more on AFP via Yahoo!…. Read more