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The growth and possession of WMD has seriously undermined international security. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 60 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Weapons of mass destruction (WMD), meaning nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons, kill indiscriminately and on a scale no battlefield logic can contain. Whether possessing them has undermined security or underwritten it is the oldest argument of the nuclear age. The best answer is that WMD have made great-power war rarer while making every other…

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  • How WMD undermine security
  • The case that they have underwritten security
  • Whose security?
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