Shadows of Power: Unmasking the U.S.-Skewed Quest to Tame India's Nuclear Fire
Loyal Professionals, Not Humanitarian Heroes: The U.S.-Centric Bias of Stimson, Blechman, and Krepon Against India’s Nuclear Ambitions The United States has long positioned itself as a global leader in security and diplomacy, yet its refusal to fully commit to nuclear disarmament treaties reveals a troubling prioritization of strategic interests over the moral imperative of a nuclear-free world. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) , signed in 1996 but rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1999, remains unratified, stalling global efforts to ban nuclear testing. The U.S. has also shunned the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, 2017) , which seeks to outlaw nuclear arms entirely. Against this backdrop, three figures— Henry L. Stimson , Barry Blechman , and Michael Krepon —stand not as champions of nuclear abolition but as loyal professionals whose allegiance to U.S. interests, coupled with a bias against India and Asia’s nuclear capabilities, undermined their ethica...