Impact of Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Regime on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Impact of Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Regime on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Wanogho, Mamefe David¹, Alapiki, Henry^2
1,2Department of Political & Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract: – This paper focused on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime and Nuclear Weapons Management in the Post-Cold War Era. The study was undertaken against the backdrop of subsisting nuclear proliferation issues, in spite of the existence of the nonproliferation regime. The paper aimed to present, analyze, and evaluate the nuclear non-proliferation regime of the post-Cold War era. The goal is to demonstrate whether this non-proliferation regime is not quite the same as what subsisted in the cold War time and to decide if it sufficiently addresses the multiplication of atomic weapons in the post-Cold War period, among other explicit targets. The paper sought to answer whether there is a difference between the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime of the Cold War era and the post-Cold War period, and whether there are conflicts between states around the acquisition of nuclear weapons. This work relied on secondary data and utilized a data matrix table to aid data collection. The study discovered that there was no distinction in the nonproliferation regime of the Cold War and the post-Cold War period.

Keywords: Nuclear weapons, proliferation, nonproliferation, post-cold war era.

I. INTRODUCTION

The clamour for the development, possession, and capacity to deploy nuclear weapons against real and perceived adversaries was the hallmark of the Cold war. Nations arranged on either side of the ideological gap under the administration of the now moribund USSR, on one viewpoint, and the USA, on the other. The development of partnership and shared safeguard associations along provincial and ideological lines like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) set up in 1949 and the Warsaw Treaty Organization, set up in 1955 was an impression of the disturbance of the Cold War.

Countries have an assortment of nuclear projects. Some tailor their programmes to serve the energy needs of their population, while others have nuclear programmes that aim at building nuclear weapons as a form of power projection to further the national security interests of their nations. Still, some nations have nuclear programmes that transcend diverse areas of national interests and serve varying purposes, including energy and security needs.
The international arena has a litany of regimes, rules, and regulations, which govern the conduct of states in various sectors. Atomic weapons advancement and ownership has been vigorously controlled by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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