Bharat Karnad is Research Professor for National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and author of numerous books, among them, Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy, Second edition (2005, 2002), India’s Nuclear Policy (2008) and, most recently, Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet), and blogs at www.bharatkarnad.com.

He was Member of the National Security Advisory Board, Member of the Nuclear Doctrine-drafting Group, Government of India, and, formerly, Adviser, Defense Expenditure, Finance Commission, India.