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    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    102 : The South Asian Nuclear Genie: Out of the Bottle, It can be Useful

    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    13 April 2009

    When the South Asian nuclear genie got out of the bottle in May 1998, with both India and Pakistan overtly conducting nuclear tests, there was much consternation, in particular, at the Conference on Disarmament. A permanent forum of the United Nations based in Geneva, the Conference on Disarmament is the only inter-governmental negotiating forum on disarmament. The author was then the Bangladesh Ambassador to this body.