And Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Arms and weapons are considered to be essential for the security of the country. The basic aim of any country is security and survival and to serve security and survival, tools are required which are capacity and capability to build your weapons for defence. Arms and Weapons are used for two things aggression and defence which is dependent upon the policy of the country. Thomas Hobbes said, “Humans are by nature Brutish, Nasty and violent”, So weapons in the hands of human beings who are brutish, nasty and violent can’t be guaranteed and that means devastation and war.
Arms control and disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are relevant concepts to each other. The only objective is the survival of the humanity, to reduce the atrocities, war and to maintain peace. Arms control and Disarmament are the major aspects of the international politics today. If we see back last 10 years, the agenda of disarmament includes different concepts and different dimensions;
1) Reducing the chances of war and stabilizing the chances of prosperity.
2) Maintaining and expanding non-proliferation regimes that restrain the spread of nuclear weapons.
3) Constraining the spread of long range cruise missiles.
4) Banning chemical and biological weapons.
5) Restricting the size and composition of the conventional arms.
6) Creating regional confidence building measures and banning certain classes of non-nuclear arms like landmines.
These are the basic objectives of disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation regimes. The international powers like; America, Russia, China their national security policy revolves around that and for that purpose even during the cold war period they had started START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and even CWCs (Chemical Weapons Conventions) and throughout the cold war most of the treaties were initiated bi-lateral and then they converted to multi-lateral. The realists have the