
In these circumstances, even while safeguarding India’s security interests against China which initiated and sustained nuclear proliferation to Pakistan, and Islamabad whose nuclear weapons are India-specific, India should attempt to regain its earlier reputation as a champion of a nuclear weapon free world. The Rajiv Gandhi-Gorbachev declaration for a nuclear weapon free world preceded the Kissinger-Schulz-Perry-Nunn thesis by 20 years.
The writer is a senior defence analyst
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