Should India Sign CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)

The article on which this paper is based appeared in “The New York Times” on May 14, 1998 by Paul Warnke that deals with the decision by India to “openly pursue the nuclear option”. In 1996, a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was brought before the United Nations for the cause of disarmament and prevention of further production of harmful nuclear weapons. India, which had always advocated the cause of disarmament and had the moral high grounds since …showed first 75 words of 623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 623 total…test ban treaty. But for India CTBT would mean to close its options which is clearly unacceptable.[4] There si no other issue at this time that haunts the world more than that of nuclear weapons. Humanity carries a deep scar from the use of fission weapons and the world needs to start striving for disarmament. But keeping in view the above points, CTBT seems to be more like a bad precedent than a good start.