Nuclear Disarmament Archives

Nuclear Disarmament A Way Forward

Publisher: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

IDSA set up a Task Force to examine the issues concerning disarmament with Shri Satish Chandra, formerly India’s Ambassador to Conference on Disarmament and Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) as Chair. This report is the outcome of its deliberations. It seeks to examine the obstacles to nuclear disarmament and the manner in which they can be removed. It reiterates the dangers of the nuclear weapon states persisting with their current policies of privileging nuclear weapons in their security postures and neglecting their obligations under article VI of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).

ISBN 81-86019-69-3 ,
E-copy available

2010
Book

Nuclear Weapons Use in Japan and the Status of Nuclear Disarmament

Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use, dreadfully experienced in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has had little policy impact on concluding a genuine nuclear disarmament convention.

Rajiv Nayan
August 14, 2023
IDSA Comments

Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament Decision and Security Assurances

Ukraine’s security predicament in the face of the Russian military onslaught brings into focus the vacuity of big power security assurances in the absence of legally binding security guarantees and treaty commitments.

Mukesh Kumar
June 10, 2022
IDSA Comments

P-5 Joint Nuclear Statement: Much Ado about Nothing?

The recently issued joint statement by P-5 countries on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms race, does not seem to go beyond the routine statements made in the past. The NPT member countries demanding concrete steps on nuclear disarmament will have to wait for more time.

Rajiv Nayan
January 31, 2022
IDSA Comments

The Biden Administration and the Future of ‘No First Use’

Although the ideas of nuclear arms control, nuclear security and nuclear disarmament have featured in several US official statements and joint statements with other countries, will US adopt the ‘No First Use’ policy, remains to be seen.

Rajiv Nayan
December 28, 2021
IDSA Comments

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has not succeeded in adding any additional universal stigma to nuclear weapons. It lacks the support base needed for replacing the Cold War vintage “Mutual Assured Destruction” with “Mutual Assured Abstinence”. The nuclear weapon countries’ faith in the deterrence logic remains intact.

Rajiv Nayan
August 11, 2021
IDSA Comments

NPT@50: How India Framed its Decision to Reject the Treaty

India’s decision to reject the NPT was a display of astute statecraft with idealist posturing used to masquerade pursuit of national interests.

A. Vinod Kumar
September 25, 2020
Issue Brief

India’s ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine

The Defence Minister’s recent statement on ‘no first use’ basically underlines the fact that India’s current nuclear doctrine is working well.

Rajiv Nayan
September 16, 2019
IDSA Comments

Politics, Security and Nuclear Abolition: Beyond the Idealist Rhetoric

Disarmament and non-proliferation are rightfully viewed as two sides of the same coin: the two imperatives that need to be met if the prospect of the complete elimination of nuclear weapons is to be realised. Although the existence of a link between the two concepts is obvious, the exact nature of this connection is perhaps not as clear. The central question here is whether it is politics or strategic realities that shape states’ nuclear options and by implication, the two-fold road to global zero.

India’s Disarmament Myths and Political Realities*

There is a need to debate both the necessity and desirability of nuclear disarmament without being burdened by India’s idealistic aspirations and unfounded assumptions about the heft that this premature superpower carries in international politics.

Yogesh Joshi
October 10, 2012
Issue Brief