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CTBT: Ethical Googlies

  • Having tested, India is now on the other side of the disarmament debate. Besides, with its new leverage it can push for time-bound N-disarmament. Earlier it wanted the treaty to be linked to this.
  • Now that India too can conduct sub-critical tests and computer simulation, its earlier objections that the treaty was not comprehensive enough to ban all kinds of testing have been diluted.
  • The verification regime, earlier rejected as too intrusive, is now dubbed non-discriminatory.
  • Now that India has tested, its security concerns have also been addressed. (This was cited as one of the important reasons for not signing the CTBT in 1996).
  • The entry into force clause will not be a problem anymore if India agrees to sign the treaty. Under the treaty, India had to be a signatory for the treaty to come into force. This, India earlier argued, was a way of forcing it to join the treaty.
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