This paper discusses making No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons enshrined in the Indian Nuclear Doctrine as a first step towards nuclear disarmament. The proposal derives its credence from the efforts of the US President Barrack Obama to place nuclear disarmament as an important policy of his...

Nuclear terrorism poses a grave threat to national security, a fact dramatically demonstrated on 11 September 2001 by Al-Qaeda's attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These strikes revealed the vulnerability of Western societies to foreign terrorist threats and underscored the...

Reviews the prominent works in recent years on the relative merits of total nuclear disarmament, and argue that while nuclear weapons have not become irrelevant, they have become less relevant as a result of the processes of globalization