- Calling for disarmament now, he urged States with nuclear arsenals to lead the way across six areas for action.
- Dialogue to work together for transparency and prevent accidental use.
- Threats to use nuclear weapons should stop.
- Nuclear weapon States must re-affirm moratoria on nuclear testing.
- Nuclear weapon states must fulfil their disarmament commitments.
- A joint no first-use agreement.
- US and Russia should resume talks to reduce nuclear stockpiles under New START treaty.
- New START Treaty is nuclear arms reduction agreement between US and Russia signed in 2010.
- Global treaties for Nuclear Disarmament
Treaty | Objective |
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) -1963 | Prohibits testing nuclear weapons |
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT)-1967 | prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology. |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)-1996 | Prohibits all nuclear test explosions (not yet in force). |
Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear weapons (TPNW)- 2017 | Prohibits development, testing, possession, and use of nuclear weapons (entered into force in 2021). |
- India signed and ratified only Partial Test Ban Treaty among above.