{"id":1588,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-npt-has-failed-to-achieve-upsc-psir-2017-4802\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:36","slug":"the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-npt-has-failed-to-achieve-upsc-psir-2017-4802","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-npt-has-failed-to-achieve-upsc-psir-2017-4802\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has failed to achieve the ultimate objective of Global Nuclear Disarmament. Discuss the deficiency in provision of NPT."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">rR! NPT\u2019s twin aim: non-proliferation + disarmament \u2192 arsenals never fell fault sits in the provisions 2 treaty designed to freeze proliferation, not remove arsenals &gt; disarmament unmet by design<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">unequal bargain &#8211; NWS (pre-1967) vs NNWS split have-nots forgo weapons + accept IAEA safeguards; NWS only pledge \u201cgradual disarmament\u201d (Article VI) \u2192 Article VI = \u201cgood faith,\u201d no timeframe \/ target \/ penalty, no duty to destroy \u2192 Jaswant Singh \u201cnuclear apartheid\u201d \u2192 blocks new entrants but permits vertical proliferation ~ SIPRI: all nine modernising, several expanding, fresh arms race &gt; enforcement thin (North Korea\u2019s withdrawal + 2006 test) \u2192 1995 indefinite extension entrenched the format &gt; 2022 RevCon collapsed, second in a row, over unmet disarmament \u2192 non-nuclear states push TPNW into force (2021), no-confidence in Article VI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">NPT did curb horizontal proliferation, near-universal (191 parties) \u2192 deficiency lies in the disarmament pillar, not the whole treaty<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 fails by design: asks the strong to disarm with no deadline or sanction k2 remedy: a universal, verifiable framework with a fixed timeframe (Nuclear Weapons Convention)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[45],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[87],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1588","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-45","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-india-and-the-nuclear-question","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1588\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}