It is also pointed out that there are technical limitations on the pace of elimination of nuclear weapons. Such criticism is largely unjustified and is very often intended to confuse the core issue involved in disarmament. There is no contradiction in the Indian advocacy of disarmament and India keeping the nuclear option in a world where the five nuclear powers are able to get the most horrendous weapons of mass-destruction legitimised. Their legitimisation of nuclear weapons, their refusal to commit themselves to disarmament, and their record of war- proneness, compels India to safeguard its national security through maintaining its nuclear option without flaunting it as a currency of power or coercion. So long as there is no commitment to disarmament on the part of the nuclear weapon powers, it is not possible to bring about non-proliferation.
Nuclear weapons constitute state terrorism and that is bound to generate non-state terrorism.
It is irrational for nuclear powers to argue that they cannot commit themselves to disarmament and elimination of nuclear weapons but expect all the victims of their past and present domination to abjure nuclear weapons. The Non-Proliferation Treaty thereby becomes a new form of colonialism. The irrational nuclear powers are only wasting money on maintaining arsenals they cannot use and are increasing the risk of perpetuation of nuclear terrorism against themselves. Campaign for Disarmament is, therefore, for universal strategic rationality. India is bound to carry on this campaign, however long and arduous it may be.