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No First Use Nuclear Policy

The Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement about India’s ‘No First Use’ of nuclear arms pledge has raised the questions on whether India is revisiting its No First Use Policy on Nuclear Weapons. What did the Defence Minister Say? A tweet by the Defence Minister stated that “Pokhran is the area which witnessed Atalji’s firm resolve to make ..

Topics: Law by country • No first use • Nuclear arms race • Nuclear Doctrine of India • Nuclear proliferation • Nuclear strategies • Nuclear utilization target selection • Nuclear warfare • Nuclear weapon • Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction • Politics by country • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

U.S. officially withdraws from the INF Treaty

The United States of America has officially withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Even Russia has announced that it would withdraw from the treaty. INF Treaty The features of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987 were: The treaty prohibited ..

Topics: Ballistic missile • Deterrence theory • INF Treaty • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty • Law by country • Missile defense • Nuclear strategies • Nuclear warfare • Nuclear weapons • Perestroika • Politics by country • Russia and INF Treaty • START I