Japan declassifies diplomatic documents

Here are the highlights

• Japan asked US to prepare for nuclear strike on China
  
• Report: Sato sought US assurance
  
• No-nuke policy ruled out years before declaration
  
• Sukarno asked Japan to monitor '64 ceasefire
  
• Japan refused to promise NPT passage in '73 statement with U.S.
  

APB Reader - India and Pakistan

As tensions simmer between India and Pakistan following the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, this APB Reader draws on resources from around the world to provide a context for recent events

India/Pakistan Relations

• RAW: India's External Intelligence Agency Jayshree Bajoria - cfr.org backgrounder
• "Will Kashmir Stop India's Rise" Sumit Ganguly Foreign Affairs
• Mumbai: A battle in the war for Pakistan Daniel Markey – cfr.org expert brief

Terrorism

• Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) Jayshree Bajoria - cfr.org profile
• The Ideologies of South Asian Jihadi Groups Husain Haqqani - Carnegie Endowment for Peace
• Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists Jayshree Bajoria - cfr.org backgrounder
• South Asia conflict map - South Asia Terrorism Portal
• The ISI and Terrorism Eban Kaplan and Jayshree Bajoria - cfr.org backgrounder
• Lashkar-e-Tayyiba – globalsecurity.org

Nuclear Proliferation

• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Neither India or Pakistan are signatories to the treaty)

Links

• Jama’t-ud—Da’wah Pakistan website
• India/Pakistan Map