The nuclear journey May 28, 2021 May 2021 marks 23 years of the nuclear voyage that India and Pakistan have travelled together since 1998 to establish and maintain nuclear deterrence along with frequent occurrences of crises. One can argue that the nuclear weapons have been successful in preventing war between India and Pakistan yet tensions and risks have increased in the region. This makes one wonder at how different the South Asian nuclear voyage was from that of other nuclear-armed states, notably the US, the USSR/Russia, Britain, France and China (the de-jure nuclear-armed states also known as the P-5 who tested their nuclear devices before the signing of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968).