Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Contents: Preface. Introduction/Jasjit Singh. Addresses: 1. Inaugural address/Manmohan Singh. 2. Keynote address/Sergio Duarte. 3. Special address/Pranab Mukherjee. 4. Towards a nuclear weapons free and non-violent world order/Mani Shankar Aiyar. 5. Valedictory address/M. Hamid Ansari. Presentations: 1. Beyond deterrence/Jonathan Granoff. 2. Nuclear weapons and international terrorism/Rajesh Rajagopalan. 3. The leaders must be led: responsibilities of the US and Russia in leading the way to nuclear disarmament/Douglas Roche. 4. Need for a new global consensus on non-proliferation/Sverre Lodgaard. 5. Managing the nuclear industry in a world without nuclear weapons/George Perkovich and James Acton. 6. Role of CBMs in promoting nuclear disarmament/Li Chang-He. 7. Reducing reliance on nuclear weapons/Ivan Safranchuk. 8. Approach to nuclear disarmament: devalue to discard/Manpreet Sethi. 9. India\'s role in nuclear abolition and cooperative security: call for a new pragmatism/Garry Jacobs. 10. Regional restraint, the chemical weapons disarmament experience and a nuclear weapon free world: can Asia lead?/Rory Medcalf. 11. Rajiv Gandhi\'s Vision of an NWFW in today\'s context/K. Subrahmanyam. 12. Some concluding thoughts/Manpreet Sethi. Appendices.
"Twenty years ago, then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, presented an Action Plan at the Third Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations. The Plan proposed a three stage schedule spread over 22 years to not only bring about universal elimination of nuclear weapons, but also enable the creation of a secure and non-violent world order. Unfortunately, it proved to be an idea ahead of its time, steeped as the world still was in Cold War realpolitik.
Today, retired deterrence practitioners, military men, policy makers, and analysts worldwide are revisiting the concept of nuclear disarmament. An issue that had virtually disappeared from the strategic and intellectual radar over the last decade or so is being revived through government and non-governmental initiatives. Meanwhile, new nuclear dangers have added to the knottiness of long existing problems of horizontal and vertical proliferation.
The articles contained in this volume encapsulate the current debate on why and how to move towards a world free of nuclear weapons. Presented at an international conference held in New Delhi, the papers by leading experts from around the world, question existing paradigms and explore new security architectures. None can set a date when the world might be rid of nuclear weapons, but it can come about quickly if mindsets change. Ideas have the power to snowball into a force capable of bringing about a profound change and every revolution in history has taken its leaders by surprise. What is needed is the presence of a critical mass of decision-makers and opinion shapers willing to think afresh. This book reflects one such attempt towards the goal of a nuclear weapons free world."
