Vol. 1 No. 2 (2013): CISS Insight Bimonthly News & Views, April-May 2013
Articles

Pakistan and the International Nuclear Order

Amb. Ali Sarwar Naqvi
Executive Director of the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS)
Bio
Published June 10, 2013
How to Cite
Amb. Ali Sarwar Naqvi. (2013). Pakistan and the International Nuclear Order . CISS Insight Journal, 1(2), P01-08. Retrieved from https://journal.ciss.org.pk/index.php/ciss-insight/article/view/97

Abstract

The evolution of nuclear order can be traced back to the advent of nuclear weapons, which led to a realization of the intensity with which nuclear energy could impact upon the lives of human beings. William Walker defined Nuclear Order in his book, A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order as,

“Given the existence of nuclear technology, the international nuclear order entails evolving patterns of thought and activity that serve primary goals of world survival, war avoidance and economic development; and the quest for a tolerable accommodation of pronounced differences in the capabilities, practices, rights and obligations of states.”

Creating an order within the nuclear realm was a strategy devised to save mankind of the disasters unleashed by the creation of nuclear weapons. The goals of the nuclear order which evolved and which exist even today were two-dimensional. The first dimension is concerned with ensuring a global access to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes while the other dimension tries to restrict, limit and check the diversion of available nuclear energy for weapons build-up. Thus the international nuclear order faces an eternal and inherent paradox, promoting access to nuclear energy on the one hand while restricting it to selected states on the other.