Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD is the appropriate acronym for the emerging dimensions in world nuclear politics since the end of the Cold War in the early nineties. The emergence of new 'nuclear' states such as India and Pakistan has cast a long and ominous shadow over the on-going efforts to de-nuclearise the world through the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The first use deterrence principle has ensured a fragile world order that occasionally plunges ...
