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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    417 : The Security of Nuclear Weapons Challenges for South Asia and the Muslim World

    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is Principal Research Fellow ,ISAS

    8 April 2016

    The apprehensions that nuclear weaponry might fall into undesirable hands are growing. President Barack Obama of the United States has given leadership in bringing the issue to the fore in the just-concluded Washington conference. With the forthcoming changes in the US Administration, greater responsibility will devolve on to the international community in this regard. The imminent Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Turkey should take up the cudgels in this matter in real earnest. This would bring credit to the leaders of the Islamic world in their countries, and beyond.