South Asia Program
The Stimson Center has nurtured confidence-building and nuclear risk-reduction measures in South Asia through workshops with knowledgeable and well connected Indian, Pakistani, and US participants; private meetings with key officials in all three countries; research and publications; public forums in Washington; and a Visiting Fellows program. Whatever form the Center's programming takes, its function is the same: to encourage the consideration of useful ideas that could provide short-term relief from potential dangers and the long-term basis for a durable peace. READ MORE »
Current Research
US-India Nuclear Deal » The Stimson Center has developed a resource page on the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Project Director Michael Krepon has also testified in front of Congress on the deal and its nonproliferation implications. READ MORE »
Confidence-Building Measures » CBMs are diverse arrangements -- such as hotlines, people-to-people exchanges, and prior notifications of military exercises -- that can help reduce tensions and promote good neighborly relations. These tools are designed to make the behavior of states more predictable by facilitating communication among states and establishing rules or patterns of behavior for states' military forces. CBM programming in South Asia aims to expand the use of confidence-building measures and to strengthen measures that already exist in principle. READ MORE »
Nuclear Risk Reduction » India and Pakistan are the only two states possessing nuclear weapons that used to fire upon each other's forces on a routine basis. These firefights along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir had severe escalatory potential. The Henry L. Stimson Center has worked with officials and military officers in India and Pakistan to develop practical and effective measures to reduce the risk of nuclear war. READ MORE »
Visiting Fellows Program » The Stimson Center's South Asia Visiting Fellows program brings Indian and Pakistani researchers to Washington for up to three months to familiarize them with the theory and practice of arms control, disarmament, nuclear risk reduction, and confidence-building measures (CBMs). The South Asia Visiting Fellows program is currently geared toward government employed individuals at an early or mid-career stage who show promise of being able to contribute creatively to the public debate on national security in their respective countries and in the region as a whole. READ MORE »