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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Centre for Air Power Studies -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Nuclear Energy -- Chapter 1: Current Nuclear Energy Reality: Drivers and Challenges -- Chapter 2: India's Nuclear Energy Scenario -- Chapter 3: Emergence of Small Modular Reactors: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 4: Military Applications of Nuclear Power Plants -- Nuclear Non-Proliferation -- Chapter 5: Nuclear Doctrines of Great Powers and Vertical Nuclear Proliferation Trends -- Chapter 6: The State of the NPT: Challenges Ahead -- Chapter 7: The Iran Nuclear Imbroglio: End in Sight? -- Chapter 8: Nuclear Proliferation in East Asia: Will AUKUS Cause a New Arms Race? -- Chapter 9: Contemporary Missile Developments in United States and Russia post-INF Treaty -- Chapter 10: Nuclear Missile Development Trends in Southern Asia: An Analysis from 2011 to 2021 -- Chapter 11: The Threat of N-Terrorism: A Contemporary Assessment -- Nuclear Disarmament -- Chapter 12: Understanding Deterrence Breakdown in the Indian Context -- Chapter 13: Mapping Arms Control and CBMs: From Cold War Years to Present Times -- Chapter 14: The Current State of Play in Nuclear Disarmament -- Chapter 15: Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament after the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Could New Opportunities Arise? -- Index.

Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. Each of these has seen phases of cautious optimism, deep scepticism and outright pessimism over the last two decades. This book offers a bird's eye view on all the three, even as the individual authors offer a worm's eye view on each specific topic within the larger ambit. The first section of the book examines developments in the nuclear energy sector. A broad-brush scan of the contemporary drivers and challenges for nuclear energy at a global level, as also that of India, reveals a positive trend line. There is also cautious optimism around the concept, developments and prospects of small modular reactors. It remains to be seen how effectively and quikcly licensing and regulation issues are resolved for the new concepts to become commericially viable. The second part of the book is devoted to non-proliferation. Vertical nucluear and missile proliferation amongst nuclear armed states, and horizontal proliferation cases of Iran and possibilities in East Asia are considered. Nuclear terrorism and the state of the NPT are also examined. Collectively, these issues reflect a mood of pessimism on non-proliferation at this juncture. Neither is there much to cheer on nuclear disarmament. The last section of the book examines the consequences of use of nuclear weapons, concepts of CBMs and arms control, and recent disarmament initiatives. A tentative exploration of the prospects of disarmament in the wake of Russia-Ukraine conflict is also undertaken. A hope that good sense will prevail, and fear that it might not, seem to coexist at this moment. It is in India's interest to proactively shape the landscape across these three elements. The book seeks to provide the basis to do so.

The concept of strategic stability provides a framework for strengthening security in the nuclear age. This report explores the possibilities and constraints for achieving strategic stability in South Asia. The strained relations between India, on the one hand, and Pakistan and China, on the other, make it difficult to achieve such stability. Nevertheless, it is important to explore new alternatives in a region that is frequently exposed to crises, and where some countries have nuclear weapons strategies based on manipulating risks to bolster deterrence. The report discusses various measures that could weaken the incentives for the use of nuclear weapons. ; publishedVersion

Canada was among the first countries to participate in India's nuclear power program. Not only was CIRUS the first research reactor to be built in India with outside help; it was also Canada's first reactor export and marked a breakthrough for its nuclear industry. But the nuclear relationship foundered when India conducted a peaceful nuclear explosion in 1974. Differences over non-proliferation and Cold War considerations kept India and Canada apart until the turn of the millennium. Then a number of factors coalesced in the first decade of the 21st century to lead the two countries to reconsider their nuclear engagement and sign a nuclear cooperation agreement in 2010. What made this possible? What are the major contours of the agreement? What potential does it hold? And what issues still bedevil the nuclear relationship? This article provides a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of the Indo-Canadian nuclear relationship and highlights the importance of the nuclear dimension in their larger bilateral engagement. While the paper acknowledges that the relationship was influenced by Cold War considerations, it steers clear of the issues of alignment and non-alignment and deals with the historical context of the relationship only to extrapolate the possibilities and challenges for the future.

The article undertakes a generic examination of the global change in understanding export controls with the end of the Cold War and in the wake of new threats of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation to and by non-state actors. These have necessitated a more inclusive approach to export controls. India, which until now has been outside such regimes, has a special significance since it is a major user, producer and trader of dual-use items and technologies. The article links the global changes with a simultaneous transformation in India's perception of export controls. It contrasts India's past and present approaches to export controls, identifies measures towards their better institutionalisation, highlights implementation challenges unique to the Indian environment and suggests measures to overcome these challenges. The article also argues that while export controls ensure trade with security, they have limited value as tools of non-proliferation, which in order to be sustainable, must not only dry up supply sources but also mitigate demand.