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Explain the differences between India and USA on the question of CTBT. Why has India decided to link CTBT with the elimination of nuclear weapon?

  • UPSC 1996
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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The CTBT was negotiated in the Conference on Disarmament (CD) from January 1994. India and the United States both wanted a test ban but meant different things by it. For Washington it was a non-proliferation tool; for New Delhi it had to be a disarmament step. That gap explains India's veto at the CD in…

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  • Where the two differed
  • Why India linked the CTBT to elimination
  • The aftermath
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