{"id":51387,"date":"2019-08-20T10:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51387"},"modified":"2019-08-20T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:19:42","slug":"answered-no-first-use-nuclear-policy-has-helped-india-to-establish-itself-as-a-responsible-nuclear-nation-in-light-of-this-discuss-whether-india-should-change-its-nuclear-policy-o","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-no-first-use-nuclear-policy-has-helped-india-to-establish-itself-as-a-responsible-nuclear-nation-in-light-of-this-discuss-whether-india-should-change-its-nuclear-policy-o\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cNo first use nuclear policy has helped India to establish itself as a responsible nuclear nation.\u201d In light of this discuss whether India should change its nuclear policy or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body.<\/strong> Nuclear doctrine of India and analyse no first nuclear policy.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

For India, Nuclear weapons are political weapons and not weapons of war fighting and that their sole purpose is to deter the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons by India\u2019s adversaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features of\nIndia\u2019s nuclear doctrine:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Building and maintaining a credible minimum\ndeterrent.<\/li>
  2. A \u201cNo First Use\u201d policy i.e. nuclear weapons to\nbe used only in case of any nuclear attack on Indian territory or on Indian\nforces anywhere.<\/li>
  3. Non use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear\nweapon states.<\/li>
  4. Nuclear retaliatory attacks to be authorised\nonly by civilian political leadership through the Nuclear Command Authority.<\/li>
  5. Nuclear retaliation to a first strike will be\nmassive and designed to inflict unacceptable damage.<\/li>
  6. India may retaliate with nuclear weapons to\nretaliate against attack  with biological\nor chemical weapons.<\/li>
  7. Strict controls on export of nuclear and missile\nrelated materials and technologies.<\/li>
  8. A commitment to goal of nuclear weapon free\nworld.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Argument that favours NFU:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. NFU policy help to deter nuclear wars. <\/li>
    2. If a nuclear weapons state is powerful and is at\nadvantage with respect to its enemies in non-nuclear capabilities, it does not\nneed to threaten first use of its nuclear bombs. India is a stronger conventional\npower as compared to Pakistan. <\/li>
    3. India today has access to much better technology\nthan it had in 2003 when it released its nuclear doctrine. New Delhi now has\nmore missiles which are more accurate. It has high quality surveillance\nplatforms. <\/li>
    4. If India shifts to first use policy, then it\nwill lead to competition and adversaries may seek to develop and deploy more\nsizeable and quickly useable nuclear forces\/weapons. This will lead to nuclear\narms race, as happened at the time of Cold War.<\/li>
    5. India\u2019s missiles have enabled it to move towards\ncanister systems for storing its land-based ballistic missiles. Such systems\ncan reduce turnaround time. Canister has further enabled India\u2019s nuclear\ndeterrent to move to the seas. <\/li>
    6. With INS Arihant, a nuclear propelled ballistic\nmissile submarine. India has a credible sea-based deterrent. With a couple of\nmore SSBNs, it can boast of a genuine nuclear triad. Sea-based deterrence thus\nincrease the strain on NFU policy.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Argument against NFU:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. When China was conventionally stronger, India\nfelt somewhat protected due to difficult terrain on the Himalayan border. Now,\nChina\u2019s impressive infrastructure and massive military modernisation have\neffectively eroded the Himalayan buffer. This is putting immense pressure on\nIndia\u2019s NFU policy.<\/li>
      2. India\u2019s conventional advantage has been impacted\nby Pakistan through a clever use of terrorists and threat of using tactical\nnuclear weapons against any Indian conventional response to a 26\/11 type of an\nattack. India\u2019s nuclear doctrine, that professes massive retaliation even\nagainst use of small nuclear weapon, does not help. <\/li>
      3. Pakistan is rapidly increasing its arsenal size\nand improving the survivability of its nuclear weapons. <\/li>
      4. NFU is not good for war like situation, because\nit requires India to first absorb a nuclear attack before responding. It may\nresult in unacceptably high initial casualties and damage to Indian population,\ncities, and infrastructure.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        India should maintain its NFU (no-first-use) doctrine, as it has helped India in gaining many benefits at international level. It was due to India’s nuclear prudence, that Japan has recently signed nuclear deal. India plans for first use policy, then preparation and expenditure would be required for complex command and control and sophisticated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems, which targets to hit first, etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Nuclear doctrine of India and analyse no first nuclear policy. Conclusion. Way forward. For India, Nuclear weapons are political weapons and not weapons of war fighting and that their sole purpose is to deter the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons by India\u2019s adversaries. Features… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cNo first use nuclear policy has helped India to establish itself as a responsible nuclear nation.\u201d In light of this discuss whether India should change its nuclear policy or not?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51387","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}