Hovering Clouds of Arsenals across the Globe: Taking into Account Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Abstract

Nuclear politics is always a tricky business at international level. To understand the nuclear politics is not easy for the teachers, students, researchers and scholars of nuclear politics and global affairs. Arms Control doesn’t means to control or reduce the arsenals, it is sometimes to build arsenals to influence the opponent as two superpowers expanded their nuclear arsenals and raised the slogan of arms control. In this sense, the world witnessed hovering clouds of arsenals across the globe during the cold war era when USSR and USA plunged into conflict in Korean Peninsula, Cuban Missile Crisis and in European vicinity. Although numbers of agreements have been signed by powerful states to avoid nuclear tussles and they remained successful but the race between USSR and USA stimulated other countries to build nuclear arsenals. The bitter reality is that some countries achieved nuclear technology some trying to get like Iran. However, except nuclear issues there are several issues in global politics because now the world has become multipolar and more interestingly China is the emerging global power and influencing the states across the globe. On the other hand, number of treaties have lost their worth or been withdrawn such like INF Treaty and NEW START Treaty is going to expire in February 2026. The question is that what world leading powers learnt from history in sense ofnuclear tussles? Because INF has been terminated and New START is also going to be expired. What would be next? What will be the consequences of the termination of INF at first hand and New START Treaty if it would be terminated? This research attempts to find out these main questions through descriptive analytical research Methodology.