Dehradun, April 25 -- Nations these days have become plenty trigger-happy in responding to provocations on their borders. There have been frequent incidents of missile and drone attacks - the latest being the Iranian attack on Israel, the Iran-Pakistan exchange and, of course, the continuing bombings in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This seems to have lowered the threshold that needs to be maintained in a world in which several countries have nuclear arsenals.
Being a nuclear power requires far greater restraint and responsibility than is being displayed by some nations at the present. The major powers learned serious lessons during the Cold War when, on more than one occasion, the world was on the brink of a nuclear conflict. As such, for ...