He is one of the authors of India's nuclear doctrine and its first strategic defense review.
Ambiguity therefore plays a significant role in our nuclear doctrine - we do not confirm exactly how and under what circumstances we would use our deterrent.
China maintains an official nuclear doctrine of "no first use" of nuclear weapons.
The nuclear doctrine was adopted by the government of India soon after.
This logic became ingrained in American nuclear doctrine and persisted for much of the duration of the Cold War.
Soviet nuclear doctrine, however, did not match American nuclear doctrine.
Mr. Gorbachev himself recently criticized the balance of terror as a strategy for keeping the peace and urged that nuclear doctrines become truly defensive.
Khrushchev's attempt to introduce a nuclear doctrine limited to deterrence into Soviet military thought misfired.
India has a declared nuclear no-first-use policy and is in the process of developing a nuclear doctrine based on "credible minimum deterrence."
Credible Minimum Deterrence is the principle on which Pakistan and India's nuclear doctrine are based.