Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 09/2010

Diminutive hopes on Nuclear Disarmament

A. Vinod Kumar

August 2010

Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, University of Calcutta

Abstract

The 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings has just gone by. This was one passionate moment for the comity of nations to conscientiously introspect why all the movements and initiatives on disarmament in the past six decades have not borne fruition. This was also an opportunity to formally acknowledge the failure of the recent momentum on nuclear disarmament, initiated by the statesmen quadrate – Henry Kissinger, William Perry, Sam Nunn and George Schultz.