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How Dangerous Was Kargil? Nuclear Crises in Comparative Perspective.

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Julia Macdonald

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The Kargil War was what we term a ‘staircase crisis’—a crisis that exhibited incentives for first nuclear use, but in which the level of escalation was relatively controllable by the leaders involved.

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