Nuclear Weapons and Power Politics

It is in the perspective of international balance of power, preserved precariously by the studious non-use of nuclear weapons that forms the backdrop of the present compilation. The materials presented in the following pages deal with a wide range of issues concerning the power politics of states possessing nuclear weapons. They cover such relevant aspects as, the unceasing efforts of the United Nations Organisation to bring about nuclear weapons free world, through the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC); the provision of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and India’s response to the CTBT; the nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands specially the ‘rogue’ states, as we are now preparing to cope with fast changing situation in Afghanistan and therefore South Asia; and the views of various world leaders on the intricacies of what can be described as nuclear politics. The compilation draws from wide range of sources, both India and foreign, and it is hoped that it will be much use and interest to all those interested in the dynamics and politics of nuclear weapon states, besides students and researchers, political analyst and journalist.