India’s Accession to the NPT and CTBT: Strategic, Security, and Diplomatic Implications Introduction India’s nuclear policy, marked by its 1998 declaration as a nuclear weapon state (NWS) and sustained by a doctrine of credible minimum deterrence and No First Use (NFU), exists outside the formal architecture of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive … Continue reading What are the potential strategic, security, and diplomatic implications for India’s nuclear policy if it were to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), given its 1998 declaration as a nuclear weapon state and its current non-signatory status?