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What is the significance of the increasing global diffusion of nuclear and long-range delivery vehicle technology?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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A warhead without a delivery vehicle is a laboratory achievement; range turns a regional capability into a global concern. When the question was set, North Korea had just conducted its second nuclear test (May 2009) and Iran had orbited its first satellite on a domestic launcher (February 2009): the means of making and delivering nuclear…

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  • Why diffusion is happening
  • Strategic significance
  • Significance for the non-proliferation order
  • The Indian dimension
  • Conclusion
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