Ebook: Neighbours in arms: an American senator's quest for disarmament in a nuclear subcontinent
Author: Pressler Larry
- Tags: Arms transfers--Government policy, Arms transfers--Government policy--United States, Military relations, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear disarmament--South Asia, Biography, Pressler Larry -- 1942-, United States -- Military relations -- South Asia, South Asia -- Military relations -- United States, Nuclear disarmament -- South Asia, Arms transfers -- Government policy -- United States, Arms transfers -- Government policy, South Asia, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
- City: South Asia;United States
- Language: English
- epub
As chairman of the US Senate's Arms Control Subcommittee, Larry Pressler advocated the now-famous Pressler Amendment, enforced in 1990 when President George H.W. Bush could not certify that Pakistan was not developing a nuclear weapon. Aid and military sales to Pakistan were blocked, including a consignment of F-16 fighter aircraft, changing forever the tenor of the United States' relationships with Pakistan and India, and making Pressler 'a temporary hero throughout India and a devil in Pakistan'.This book reveals what went on behind the scenes in the years when the Pressler Amendment was in force, through a cast of characters that include presidents, prime ministers, senators and generals in the US, India and Pakistan. It exposes the enormous power wielded by the military-industrial complex, which the author terms 'Octopus', and how it controls significant aspects of the American presence in the Indian subcontinent.The book provides a comprehensive account of how US foreign...