Towards a nuclear weapons free world -: In absentia, this paper presented in National Seminar organized by India Development Foundation 3rd June 2012 Gandhi Bhavan Bangalore moderated by former CJI Justice MN Venkatachalaiah Some Facts: (1) No two functioning democracies have gone to war against each other post advent of NW (Nuclear Weapons). (2) Among the seven declared NW states, no democracy has acquired weapons in the perceived threat of another democracy. Either totalitarian states have acquired it or democracies have been forced to acquire it because of a clear and present threat from totalitarian states. History of NW usage: There have been only two (ghastly enough) instances of NW usage till date. Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred as a riposte to sustained attack on a democratic society by a totalitarian state and an absence of a forum where the victim demo...