During the Cold War, another myth got generated that the best route to
nuclear disarmament lay through nuclear non-proliferation. The Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) took shape during the 1960s and today enjoys widespread adherence.
Limitations:
Limitations:
- The fact that the five countries acknowledged as nuclear-weapon-states in NPT are the same as the five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) may have been a coincidence in the 1960s, but today, is a liability that diminishes the NPT.
- The NPT framework cannot accommodate India’s position or
- Cannot tackle China’s flagrant assistance to Pakistan;
- its review conferences have repeatedly failed in grappling with Israel’s programme;
- the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea walked out of the treaty;
- and most recently, Iran ensured that it will retain a non-weaponised capability in terms of its enrichment programme.
- Clearly, the NPT has reached the limits of its success and even exhausted its normative potential.
- Today’s nuclear world is very different from the bipolar world of the Cold War dominated by the superpower nuclear rivalry.
- The centre of gravity has shifted from the Euro-Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific region and this is a more crowded geopolitical space without any overarching binary equation.
- Different players have widely disparate nuclear arsenals and
- different doctrinal approaches.
- Even as the number of variables and the number of equations have grown, there is an absence of a security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region.
- A democratic platform to address concerns
- More frequent meetings - regional, multilateral, global
- Agenda - in every conference - G-20, UNFCCC, etc.
- Nuclear disarmament first
- As a nuclear conscience keeper, Hiroshima can provide the world a dialogue platform to explore new thinking
- From a city of remembrance, Hiroshima can then become a city of hope where the first meaningful steps for a nuclear weapon free world were negotiated.
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