Nuclear Pakistan and the emergence of a peace movement

The pager examines;amines how opposition to nuclear weapons in Pakistan, wh ich was restricted to a handful of individuals prior to the nuclear detonat ions in May 1998, has grown in influence and has wider support than previou sly thought possible. What has given the opposition to nuclear weapons legi timacy has been the shift in public opinion against the government due to t he collapse of the economy. This has allowed the opposition to nuclear as w ell as conventional weapons to come out of the political wilderness and gai n a degree of respectability. This opposition to nuclear weapons is still p eripheral but it conflates with other narratives of dissent in Pakistan and is now here to stay.