Rajagopal, S
(1999)
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and options for India (NIAS Working Paper No. WP1-1999).
Working Paper.
NIAS, Bangalore.
| Abstract: |
Fissile material cut-off was first proposed as a U.S-U.S.S.R
arms control measure by President D. Eisenhower in 1956*
but was rejected by U.S.S.R., since it felt that it was an
American tactic to freeze them at an inferior level. In the
intervening years, between 1956 and January 1989 when
President Mikhail Gorbachev was willing to discuss the
proposal, several developments took place (Annex-1), and
attempts were made to stop production of fissile material but
without any success. Despite the new Russian flexibility under
Gorbachev, however, the Bush administration was opposed to
the idea, most likely due to the U.S.S.R.’s nuclear stockpile
being higher than that of the U.S. Indeed until 1993, the U.S.
remained an opponent to cut-off when President Clinton revised
the policy position from “opposition |
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Monograph
(Working Paper)
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| Keywords: |
FMCT |
| Subjects: |
NIAS Resources > NIAS Working Papers |
| Divisions: |
Schools > International Strategic and Security Studies Programme |
| Date Deposited: |
16 Feb 2012 10:30 |
| Last Modified: |
27 Oct 2022 06:39 |
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| DOI: |
81-87663-01-4 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/302 |
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