Books and Monographs
Nuclear Learning in South Asia and the Levels of Analysis, RCSS Policy Studies 57 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2015) (with Rabia Akhtar)
Journal Articles
“Explaining the Proliferation of Nuclear Delivery Vehicles,” Security Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3. [Read Here]
“Cascades of Competition: Southern Asia, the Indo-Pacific, and AUKUS,” Texas National Security Review, Volume 8, No. 4 [Open Access].
"Standard Operating Barriers in International Studies,” International Studies Review, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2024, viae038_2. [Read Here]
“‘The Courtroom of World Opinion’: Bringing the International Audience into Nuclear Crises,” Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021, ksab028. [Open Access]
“Warring from the Virtual to the Real: Assessing the Public’s Threshold for War over Cyber Security.” Research and Politics 4 (2) (June 2017), 1–8. (with Sarah Kreps) [Open Access]
Book Chapters
“The Strategic Implications of the India-US Nuclear Deal,” in The U.S.-India Nuclear Accord: History,
Analysis, and Reflections, ed. Šumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree, Stanford University Press, 2026)
“Challenges to the Global Nuclear Order: An Indian Perspective,” Perspectives on the Evolving Nuclear Order, ed. Toby Dalton, Togzhan Kassenova, and Lauryn Williams (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016)
“Addressing the Asymmetry in Space: India’s Strategy for Space Security,” PANORAMA of global security environment, 2014, ed. Peter Bátor and Róbert Ondrejcsák (Bratislava: Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, 2014)
“Strengthening Strategic Instability in South Asia: The Impact of Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile Defence Development,” PANORAMA of global security environment, 2013, ed. Marian Majer and Róbert Ondrejcsák (Bratislava: Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, 2013)
“Indian Nuclear Policy: A Case of Deliberate Strategic Ambiguity,” PANORAMA of global security environment, 2012, ed. Róbert Ondrejcsák, Marian Majer, and Vladimír Tarasovič (Bratislava: Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, 2012)
Book Reviews
“All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation by Rachel Whitlark” H-Diplo Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable Review 16-21, 10 January 2025, pp. 1-21.
“Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation by Vipin Narang,” Political Science Quarterly, Volume 138 (2), Summer 2023, pp. 301-302.
“Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear Armed States Behave by Mark Bell,” H-Diplo Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable Review 15-8, 13 October 2023, pp. 1-18.
Policy Briefs, Analyses, Forums and Roundtables
“The End of Nuclear Arms Control: What Comes Next?,” ORF Middle East, April 28, 2026.
“War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermine the US’s ability to talk peace around the world – and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office,” The Conversation, March 27, 2026.
“Biden opened the door to missile proliferation. Trump should close it,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 28, 2025.
“An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb,” (with Rachel Epstein) Foreign Policy, March 14, 2025.
“How India’s restructured rocket force makes conflict with China more likely,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 4, 2024.
“The State of Nuclear Instability in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and China,” Lawfare, September 3, 2023.
“Not much happened after India’s accidental cruise missile launch into Pakistan—this time.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 25, 2022.
“China’s Missile Silos and the Sino-Indian Nuclear Competition,” War on the Rocks, October 13, 2021.
“Australia will get nuclear-powered submarines. Some see a proliferation threat,” The Washington Post, September 24, 2021.
“An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know,” The Washington Post, November 4, 2019.
“Introduction: A Changed Status Quo: Key Dynamics in the India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship,” Texas National Security Review, October, 2019.
“Leveraging the atom? Nuclear weapons in Indian foreign policy,” Observer Research Foundation Issue Brief, Issue No. 259, September 2018.
“Americans are united on retaliating against Russian cyberattacks” (with Sarah Kreps), The Washington Post, January 19, 2017.
Other Publications
“Modi 2.0’s Foreign Policy: More Continuity than Change” (with Shubha Kamala Prasad), South Asian Voices, July 23, 2019.
“Indian Diplomacy during the Kargil War: Success with a Limited Legacy,” South Asian Voices, May 29, 2019.
“Leaked Cables: Allende, Kissinger, Moynihan, and the Indian Nuclear Bomb,” Sources and Methods (The Wilson Center), March 4, 2019.
"Donald Trump’s foreign policy hara-kiri," Mint, May 10, 2018.
"Nuclear Posture Review 2018: Its Implications for India," Observer Research Foundation, February 21, 2018.
“A Nuclear Arms Race That Could Spell Disaster For India, Pakistan,” The Wire, August 31, 2016.
“Pakistan, MIRVs, and Counterforce Targeting,” Stimson Center, July 7, 2016.
“India's Membership in the NSG is Symbolic: Lack of Success Does It No Harm,” Catch News, June 10, 2016.
“Status and Security and Inverse Relationship?” South Asian Voices, December 28, 2014.
“Increased FDI in Indian Defence: Feeding Conventional Asymmetry?” South Asian Voices, July 24, 2014.
“The Netherlands 2014 Nuclear Security Summit: An Agenda,” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, March 28, 2013.
“Review: India, Pakistan and Incremental CBMs,” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, February 18, 2013.
“Nuclear Weapons: Can They Be Made Strategically Obsolete?” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, February 2013.
“The Trident Debate: UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent,” Eurasia Review, January 2, 2013.
“India: How Credible is its Ballistic Missile Defence,” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, October 29, 2012.
“India and Pakistan Missile Flexing: Cruising Towards Regional Instability,” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, October 29, 2012.
“Indian Membership to the NSG: American Interests and Chinese Opposition,” Eurasia Review, August 10, 2012. Available at