Nuclear proliferation and the third world

This volume brings together nine papers written by eight scholars of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and the Jawaharlal Nehru University on various issues connected The with military and civil uses of atomic energy that are likely to preoccupy this country's attention in the coming decade. contributions éxamine critically the real nature of the so-called Non-Proliferation Treaty, highlight the technological hegemony sought to be imposed upon the developing nations, focus attention on the continuous attempts at legitimisation of nuclear weapons which are continuously accumulating in the monopo listic arsenals of the industrial countries and their client states and the clandestine proliferation of nuclear weapons taking place to countries like Israel and South Africa. The nine-year old quest of Pakistan for nuclear weapon capability is also out lined in detail. The policy options for India in the eighties, and the likely occurrence of a nuclear war within the subcontinent, are examined in the light of the subcontinent being subject to the power play of three major nuclear powers of the world. The conventional wisdom of the so-called Non-Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear weapon free zone and the doctrine of nuclear deterrence have been challenged with a wealth of facts and rigorous logic. This is a highly original and thought-provoking contribution from the Third World.