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Given the recent developments in the region, do you think that there is a need to change India’s ‘No First Use (NFU)’ nuclear policy?

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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India faces two nuclear-armed neighbours that are close partners and both claim its territory. In 2019 the debate was sharpened by Pulwama and the Balakot strikes (February) and by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's remark at Pokhran in August that India had strictly adhered to NFU but its future "depends on the circumstances". Galwan (2020), Operation…

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