The Times Of India · GovernmentPolicies · 2026-08-16
Munir's Nuke Threats Hollow, US-Based Report Says India Exposed Pakistan's Nuclear Deterrence Limits
Did Operation Sindoor call Pakistan's nuclear bluff? A new assessment reported from the US-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists argues that the May 2025 India-Pakistan confrontation exposed the limits of Islamabad's reliance on nuclear deterrence. India carried out sustained conventional strikes after the Pahalgam terror attack, while the conflict remained below the nuclear threshold. The lesson is not that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has become irrelevant—it still makes full-scale war extraordinarily dangerous. The bigger change is that nuclear threats may no longer be enough to deter limited Indian conventional retaliation. Pakistan has since created an Army Rocket Force Command dedicated to…
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