Nuclearization: a threat to human security in South Asia

Abstract

Acquisition of nuclear weapons by a state may cause of threat to other state and its people. Human security line extends the possibility of security analysis and policy from territorial security to the security of people. Nuclearization was first emphasized and appeared during cold war when two superpowers installed nuclear weapons to counter each other. Security has become frontline concept in 21st century. Traditionally, physical security was at the heart of social life but recently, various other dimensions of security appeared on socio-political life of the state. Among them, human security is most important as it is a part of human development. Human security has several dimensions i.e. economic, political, and personal, environment, food and community. This research paper aims to see the impacts of nuclearization on human security of the south Asian region. This paper endeavors to search the dynamics of human security. The main question of the paper is to see how nuclearization threatens the people of South Asia with their lives physically and psychologically. And how does nuclearization between India and Pakistan prove unhelpful in managing human conditions of the uneven states. Also, through qualitative and descriptive analysis, it has been inferred that the acquisition and proliferation of nuclear weapons damaging the lives of the people of South Asia specially, India and Pakistan and it may cause further instability in the region. Further, it maintains that there is considerable human resources in South Asia that can be a source of not only for the forte of their respective states but can secure themselves from any kind of human insecurity.