• ISBN13: 9788126915026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 22, 2011
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 440 grams

Nuclear disarmament is a complex issue. The nuclear weapons states (NWS) have made these weapons an important part in their national security architecture. The experts have asserted that nuclear wars are not winnable. Security establishments and strategic experts state that the elimination of nuclear weapons will jeopardize the security of their countries. So ran the arguments when banning and proscription of the chemical weapons were under discussion. As in that case, so in the case of nuclear weapons, what is required is the change in the mindsets. Thus, a view needs to be taken of the different countries’ position on the issue. Even if most analysts feel that the lead must come from the two major stockpile holders of this ‘abomination’, viz. the U.S.A. and Russia, it is only the collective will of the international community that may nudge these two towards the final elimination of their stocks. The book Disarmament Issues in two volumes has a wide coverage. Volume I presents various treaties including Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), Strategic Offensive Treaty (SOT); agreements, conventions, statements, speeches, remarks, etc. by eminent international leaders on disarmament issues. Volume II contains resolutions, remarks, statements and working papers on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, nuclear tests, prevention of war, etc. The book also offers a comprehensive Introduction that analyses various disarmament issues with special reference to NWS and their role in bringing about nuclear disarmament as well as India’s stance on Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), efforts to create a nuclear weapon free world, threat of nuclear terrorism and other disarmament issues. It will be useful to the students and teachers of defence and strategic studies, international relations, political science and scholars in these fields. It will also benefit policymakers, parliamentarians, government officials, etc. To those concerned with world peace and security, the book will provide for an enriching and intellectually stimulating reading.

Brig. Rahul K. Bhonsle is an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Army War College, Mhow. He has served with the Indian Army for over three decades. He was on the Chinese Front in 1986, and successively operated at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir from 1989 onwards. He served in the critical Kargil Sector during Operation Parakram in 2002. Besides having a distinguished military career, he has to his credit a large number of books including Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal (co-edited) and India Security Scope 2006: The New Great Game. He has also contributed articles in professional journals, leading magazines and national dailies. 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.) and Nuclear Disarmament: Issues and Concerns. Dr. K.R. Gupta is a well-known economist and an expert in the field of International Affairs. He has published a large number of books, among which, the following deserve special mention: Reform of the United Nations (2 Vols.); Studies in World Affairs (2 Vols.); Global Terrorism; India-Pakistan Relations with Special Reference to Kashmir (4 Vols.); Selected Documents on Nuclear Disarmament (4 Vols.); India’s International Relations (2 Vols.); and Foreign Policy of India (2 Vols.).

• Preface
• Introduction

• Volume I

• 1. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
• 2. Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (12 February 2008)
• 3. Text of Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (24 May 2002)
• 4. Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
• 5. Draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
• 6. Bilateral Destruction Agreement (BDA) (1 June 1990)
• 7. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles
• 8. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes
• 9. Biological Weapons Convention Texts
• 10. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests
• 11. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-ballistic Missile Systems
• 12. Strategic Arms Limitation Talk (Salt I)
• 13. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
• 14. Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• 15. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water
• 16. Remarks by U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at CTBT Article XIV Conference, New York, U.S.A. (24 September 2009)
• 17. Statement by Tibor Toth, CTBTO Executive Secretary: Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
• The Contribution of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• 18. Statement by H.E. Mr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, at Security Council’s High-Level Summit on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament, New York, U.S.A. (24 September 2009)
• 19. Speech by Rt. Hon. Peter Hain, MP, Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, U.K., Opening the Meeting of the Independent Commission on the Verifiability of the CTBT
• 20. Statement by President Hu Jintao, at the United Nations Security Council Summit, on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament, New York, U.S.A. (24 September 2009)
• 21. WILPF Statement on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty’s Entry into Force, on the Occasion of the CTBT’s Sixth Article XIV Conference, New York, U.S.A. (24-25 September 2009)
• 22. Statement by the Head of Delegation of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov, at the 6th Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force, of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, New York, U.S.A. (24 September 2009)
• 23. Final Declaration and Measures to Promote the Entry into Force, of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (24 September 2009)
• 24. Statement by the New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Murray McCully, at the 6th CTBT Article XIV Conference, New York, U.S.A. (24-25 September 2009)
• 25. NGO Statement on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), for the Fifth Article XIV Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force (18 September 2007)
• 26. Speech by State Secretary Frank Belfrage, Sweden, at the CTBT Conference in Vienna, on Facilitating the Entry into Force, of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (17-18 September 2007)
• 27. Statement by Representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations, on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), to the Preparatory Meeting for the 2010 Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (5 May 2009)
• 28. Statement by Ambassador Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization: Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, New York, U.S.A. (4-15 May 2009)
• 29. Remarks by Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, to the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference (4 May 2009)
• 30. Statement by H.E. Boniface Chidyausiku, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, and Chairman of the Third Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 31. General Statement on behalf of the European Union, by H.E. Mr. Tomáš POJAR, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Third Session, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 32. Statement by H.E. Mr. Cheng Jingye, Head of the Chinese Delegation, at the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 33. Statement on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition, by H.E. Mr. Christer Ahlstrom, Head of Delegation, Sweden, to Preparatory Committee for 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 34. Statement by Mr. John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, Arms Control and Counter Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, at Third Preparatory Committee for 2010 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 35. Statement by H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, Third Session, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 36. Statement of African Group Read by Mr. Lawrence O. Obisakin, Minister, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, New York, U.S.A. (4 May 2009)
• 37. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Remarks to the Fourth Biennial Ministerial Meeting in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (24 September 2008)
• 38. Statement by Mr. Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco), Mexico City, Mexico (14th February 2007)
• 39. Statement of the Executive Secretary, Mr. Tibor Toth, on the Occasion of the Scientific Symposium Hofburg, Vienna, Austria (31 August 2006)