🎥 What measures to strengthen the non-proliferation regime should be taken?

Nuclear club countries should be more responsible in terms of security, said Kayhan Barzegar, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran on interview to Valdaiclub.com. What steps should be taken first to his mind, you can find out in this video.

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☢️🌐 Large-scale war among major powers, unthinkable a year ago, no longer is.

Conceivably the risk of such a war growing out of the violence in Ukraine may have the positive effect of introducing caution into the growing strategic rivalry between the United States and China and ease the way to a more serious strategic dialogue between them, along with efforts to better manage their nuclear relationship.

The ominous lessons of the Ukrainian conflict may also cause India and Pakistan as well as India and China to reconsider the fire they are playing with each time they engage arms. 

But in what is still the most critical bilateral nuclear relationship, that between the United States and Russia, the effect almost certainly will be to halt progress on nuclear arms control and destroy the prospect of the two together acting to protect, let alone, strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

The strategic stability dialogue and its two working groups launched after the June Geneva summit are suspended. When serious negotiations between the two countries on controlling their increasingly ambitious nuclear weapons programs may begin is suddenly uncertain, and so too whether anything will be possible before the extended New START expires.

The risk of inadvertent nuclear war between Russia, the United States and NATO that had reappeared over the last decade but that still seemed remote, no longer does, writes Valdai Club expert Robert Legvold.

🔗 Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear War

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☢️🌐 Today, the NPT is often described as the cornerstone of the global nuclear order.

It enjoys near-global adherence and all countries except four (India, Israel, and Pakistan never joined, and North Korea withdrew in 2003) are parties to the NPT. 

However, the NPT is the product of a global political order that existed in the 1960s and that bipolar world is now history. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 had brought home the risks of global nuclear annihilation to the leaders of both the USA and the USSR.

If the NPT has to retain political relevance, it has to adapt to the changed political realities of the 21st century and acknowledge the advances made in nuclear science and technology. Merely repeating the tired clichés of the past is clearly not enough.

A new political convergence of interests has to be built if the NPT has to successfully overcome its midlife crisis, writes Rakesh Sood, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Distinguished Fellow at ORF @orftg.

🔗 NPT’s Midlife Crisis

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