Book Event | The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use | 25th November

The Takshashila Institution is organising a discussion on the book The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use. The event will be held on Friday, November 25th from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m at our office in Bangalore.

Nitn Pai, Director, Takshashila Institution will be in conversation with the editors of the book, Lt. Gen. (Dr) Prakash Menon, Director of Takshashila’s Strategic Studies Programme and Aditya Ramanathan, Research Fellow at Takshashila.The event is open for all. 

The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use is a collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the role of nuclear weapons in global security. The contributors examine how individual states view nuclear weapons, the devastating effects of nuclear war on the world's climate and the issues around nuclear no first use. They also debate the feasibility and desirability of a global no-first-use (GNFU) agreement.

Click here to read more about the book.