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Discuss the reasons behind India’s refusal to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).

  • UPSC 2022, 2014
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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The NPT has 191 parties. India, Pakistan, Israel and South Sudan never joined, and North Korea announced its withdrawal in 2003. India's refusal stands out because it came in 1968 from a non-aligned, aid-dependent state that had helped negotiate the text in the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC). Its reasons fall under four heads.

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  • Normative and legal reasons
  • The disarmament deficit
  • Security compulsions
  • Autonomy and development
  • What India offered instead
  • Conclusion
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