{"id":215130,"date":"2022-11-20T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215130"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:53:11","slug":"india-must-resume-its-vanguard-role-in-ridding-the-world-of-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-must-resume-its-vanguard-role-in-ridding-the-world-of-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"India must resume its vanguard role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cIndia must resume its vanguard role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on 19th November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- International relations<\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Nuclear threat to world security<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The article explains the ICJ ruling on nuclear weapons and international law on this subject. It also explains India’s position on this matter.<\/p>\n

What are the main points of ICJ ruling on nuclear weapons in 1996?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It permitted a state to use nuclear weapons in self-defence when its survival was at stake.<\/p>\n

In the absence of a definitive law on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, the ICJ cannot conclude definitively whether the threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful or unlawful.<\/p>\n

What is the current opinion of the world community about nuclear weapons?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Now, we do have an international law on this subject.<\/p>\n

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed in January 2021<\/p>\n

It was passed by 122 members of the UN General Assembly,\u00a0 a clear majority.<\/p>\n

It entered into force after its ratification by 50 member-States of the UN. The number of signatories has since risen to 91.<\/p>\n

Any threat or use of nuclear weapons is now a clear violation of international law.<\/p>\n

What has been India’s position on nuclear weapons? <\/strong><\/h5>\n

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were opposed to possession, threat and use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Rajiv Gandhi presented to the UN in 1988 a detailed action plan on how to arrive in stages to a nuclear-weapons-free and nonviolent world order within a timeline of 22 years.<\/p>\n

Pranab Mukherjee, as foreign minister, proposed in the UN in 2006 a summary of the main objectives of the action plan as a working paper<\/p>\n

India appears to have disavowed both the action plan and the working paper after the NDA government came to power.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward for India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India should assume its vanguard role for elimination of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

It is the only state with the capacity and stockpile of nuclear weapons to join the current tide of world opinion for prohibition of these weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cIndia must resume its vanguard role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons\u201d published in The Indian Express on 19th November 2022. Syllabus: GS2- International relations Relevance: Nuclear threat to world security News- The article explains the ICJ ruling on nuclear weapons and international law on this… Continue reading India must resume its vanguard role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-215130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704898709},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}