• ISBN13: 9788126915224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 22, 2011
• Pages: 472
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 470 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Science

Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are the most destructive in the category of weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations has succeeded in eliminating the last two from this destructive trio through international agreements. Consequently, nuclear disarmament is one of the two most important issues presently engaging the world body, the other being the jihadist terrorism. Once the UN finds solution to these two seemingly intractable problems, the world would have no problem in establishing universal peace. The US and Russia seem to be serious about the ultimate goal of nuclear disarmament. But so far, they are merely proceeding towards reducing the nuclear weapons, not eliminating them. The latest START between Washington and Moscow is an important step towards substantial reduction in nuclear weapons. Once the two nations come to an agreement on elimination of these nuclear weapons, the rest of the nuclear weapons states will fall in line. For that to happen, the international community must continue to lean on the US and Russia. The book has a wide coverage and comprehensively deals with various issues of nuclear disarmament, viz. nuclear, biological and chemical arms; sincerity or otherwise of nuclear weapons states; nuclear non-proliferation; control of production of fissile material; nuclear vs conventional arms; building a nuclear weapon free world; deterioration of nuclear environment during the last two decades; combating nuclear terrorism; threat of bio-terrorism; cyber weapons; and ban on cluster bombs, among others. Besides, latest developments in nuclear disarmament, including major points discussed in recent disarmament conferences, nuclear security summits and plenaries have also been included. The book is as much meant for the strategic community as for the laity for its insightful treatment of all the relevant issues and aspects of the subject of nuclear disarmament.

Col. Ved Prakash was commissioned into the famed Sikh Regiment of the infantry arm of the Indian Army in 1957. He served as Commanding Officer of an Assam Rifles battalion deployed on Indo-Burma (now Myanmar) border in the 1970s. He had two tenures in Ladakh in 1980s. He took part in 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars. He has authored many books including Intelligent Ways to Enter the NDA; The Samba Spy Scandal; and Indian Army in Sri Lanka. His more recent books include Encyclopaedia of North-East India (5 Vols.).

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Nuclear Disarmament and Related Issues (1945 to Early 1990s)
• 2. Nuclear Disarmament Scenario During the Last Two Decades (1990-2010)
• 3. Disarmament: Weapons of Mass Destruction
• 4. Lighter and Small Arms and Cyber Weapon
• 5. Nuclear Disarmament: Latest Developments (2010)
• 6. Nuclear Disarmament
• 7. Moving to NWFW: India’s Options
• Annexures
• I. UN General Assembly Resolution, ‘Establishment of a Commission to Deal with the Problems Raised by Atomic Energy’, 24 January 1946
• II. UN General Assembly Resolution 1653, ‘Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons’, 24 November 1961
• III. Text of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• IV. UN Security Council Resolution 255, ‘Question Relating to Measures to Safeguard Non-Nuclear Weapon States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon’, 19 June 1968
• V. Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘Action Plan for Ushering in a Nuclear Weapon-Free and Non-Violent World Order’, 9 June 1988
• VI. UN Security Council Resolution 984
• VII. ‘13 Steps’

• NPT 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Article VI and Preambular Paragraphs 8 to 12, Section 15

• VIII. Press Release, ‘The Cabinet Committee on Security Reviews Operationalization of India’s Nuclear Doctrine’, 4 January 2003
• IX. UN Security Council Resolution 1540
• X. ‘Follow-up to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons’, UN General Assembly Resolution 61/83, 18 December 2006
• XI. Statement by Mr. Hamid Ali Rao, Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, at the General Debate of the First Committee of the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 October 2008
• XII. UN Security Council Resolution 1887 on Nuclear Security, 24 September 2009
• XIII. Existing NWC Verification Technologies