M.V. Ramana

About the author: M.V. Ramana is a research associate at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.

The United States hypocritically demands that countries without nuclear arms refrain from developing them while it retains its own nuclear arsenals in spite of increasing national and international protest and in violation of numerous treaties. Efforts by the United States to maintain its nuclear arsenal seriously threaten global security by encouraging countries to develop nuclear arms in order to protect themselves against established nuclear threats. Growing proliferation of nuclear weapons increases the likelihood that some nation will accidentally or intentionally deploy a nuclear bomb at another country; such a deployment would likely be answered with nuclear force and could set off a...