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Critically analyze India’s nuclear policy.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 10 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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India's nuclear policy rests on the doctrine approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security on 4 January 2003 and on a regime posture of non-discriminatory disarmament. Its organising idea is that nuclear weapons are political instruments whose only purpose is to deter a nuclear attack.

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