30/08/2022 - International Relations

KEY POINTS

·        An international conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty concluded at the United Nations in New York last week without a consensus document.

·        The Ninth Review conference in 2015, for example, ended without an agreement because of major differences over establishing a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

·        The non-nuclear state parties usually complained about the lack of progress in implementing the disarmament provisions of the NPT.

·        The situation today is worsened by the absence of any dialogue between the nuclear powers on arms control.

·        The invasion of a non-nuclear weapon state, Ukraine, by a nuclear weapon power, Russia, has generated a whole series of new questions.

·        China’s political campaign against the AUKUS arrangement has found some resonance in South East Asia.

·        India, which commissioned Asia’s first nuclear power station more than 50 years ago, is stuck today with a total generating capacity of barely 7,000 MW.

·        India must also recognise and adapt to the return of nuclear weapons as major instruments of great power military strategy.

·        After 1998, India premised its strategy on building “credible minimum deterrence”. The time has come to reflect on the “credible” side of that strategy and redefine what the ‘minimum’ might be.

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