{"id":1391,"date":"2024-02-17T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:43:02","slug":"q-what-is-are-the-consequence-consequences-of-a-country-becoming-the-member-of-the-nuclear-suppliers-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-what-is-are-the-consequence-consequences-of-a-country-becoming-the-member-of-the-nuclear-suppliers-group","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0What is\/are the consequence\/consequences of a country becoming the member of the \u2018Nuclear Suppliers Group\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It will have access to the latest and most efficient nuclear technologies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;<strong>automatically<\/strong>&nbsp;becomes a member of \u201cThe Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (a) 1 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nuclear-suppliers-groupnsg\"><strong>Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/nuclear-suppliers-group-upsc\/\">Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG)<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<strong>multilateral export control regime<\/strong>&nbsp;and a group of nuclear supplier countries that seek&nbsp;<strong>to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment, and technology<\/strong>&nbsp;that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>getting of NSG membership<\/strong>&nbsp;means&nbsp;<strong>access to technology for a range of uses<\/strong>&nbsp;from medicine to building nuclear power plants for India from the NSG which is essentially a traders\u2019 cartel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India has its own indigenously developed technology but to get its hands on state of the art technology that countries within the NSG possess, it has to become part of the group.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"npt\">NPT<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons<\/strong>, commonly known as the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-npt-upsc\/\">Non-Proliferation Treaty&nbsp;or&nbsp;NPT<\/a><\/strong>, is an&nbsp;<strong>international&nbsp;treaty<\/strong>&nbsp;having&nbsp;<strong>three objectives of non-proliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was opened for signature in 1968, the treaty&nbsp;<strong>entered into force in 1970<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The treaty institutionalized the non-proliferation norm by de-legitimizing \u2018proliferation\u2019 (production and transfer) of nuclear weapons, fissile materials, and related technology by the&nbsp;non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWS)&nbsp;while the recognized&nbsp;<strong>five nuclear-weapon states (NWS) \u2014&nbsp;namely the&nbsp;US, Russia, the UK, France, and China<\/strong>,&nbsp;can continue to possess nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India always considered the NPT as&nbsp;discriminatory&nbsp;and had refused to sign it.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India has opposed the international treaties aimed at non-proliferation&nbsp;<strong>since they were selectively applicable to the non-nuclear powers<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>legitimized the monopoly of the five nuclear weapons powers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? 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