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What does the pace of nuclear proliferation in post-Cold War suggest? (150 words)

  • UPSC 2013
  • 10 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The end of Soviet–American rivalry was expected to unleash new nuclear states; it did not. Since 1991 only India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly crossed the threshold, while South Africa dismantled its arsenal and Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus surrendered inherited Soviet weapons. The slow pace says several things.

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