NEW DELHI: New proliferation risks and challenges can lead to “unintended escalations”, increasing the “likelihood” of a nuclear strike, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday, asserting that India is a “reluctant” nuclear weapon state.
He was speaking at the book launch of Observer Reserach Foundation’s ‘Nuclear Order in the Twenty First Century’ authored by former diplomat Rakesh Sood.
The existing nuclear global order is coming under strain with some of the old arms control agreements being consigned to history, Singh said.
Noting that nuclear science and technology have matured over the last 70 years, the senior Congress leader said it is now easier to access and acquire them, generating new proliferation risks and challenges.
Developments in artificial intelligence, growing space, and cyber vulnerabilities, have given rise to more uncertainties, he said. (AGENCIES)
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