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Critically examine India’s persistent refusal to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) despite being recognized as a de-facto nuclear power.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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The NPT (1968) trades non-acquisition by the many for peaceful cooperation and a disarmament promise by the five. Since the 2005–08 accommodation India is treated in practice as a de facto nuclear-weapon state, yet the treaty has no door through which it could enter as one. The refusal is coherent and largely vindicated, but it…

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  • Why India stays out
  • What de facto recognition changed
  • The critique
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