Foreword by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon Introduction Part I: Understanding the Role of Nuclear Weapons in Global Security Chapter 1: Superpower and World Order: Colin S. Gray Chapter 2: The Seven Deadly Sins of Nuclear Strategy Dogmata: Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon Chapter 3: Is Nuclear Deterrence a Cost-Effective Policy? Bruno Tertrais Chapter 4: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Security Environment: Rajesh Basrur Chapter 5: Nuclear Weapons, Geopolitics, Emerging Technologies, and Oppositional Nationalism: Sadia Tasleem Part II: The Uses and Perils of Nuclear Weapons Chapter 6: Nuclear Coercion: Evaluating Insights from Academic Scholarship: Walter C. Ladwig III Chapter 7: Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War: Owen B. Toon, Alan Robock, Michael Mills and Lili Xia Part III: The Dilemmas of No First Use Chapter 8: It's Time for a US No-First-Use Nuclear Policy: Nina Tannenwald Chapter 9: The Purposes of Nuclear Weapons: Rajesh Rajagopalan Chapter 10: Nuclear No First Use in Theory and Practice: Keir Lieber and Daryl Press Part IV: States, Nuclear Weapons, and the Prospects for Global No First Use Chapter 11: US Nuclear Strategy, No First Use, and the Return of Great Power Competition: Matthew Kroenig Chapter 12: Russia's Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Petr Topychkanov Chapter 13: Global No First Use: Less Possible, More Necessary? Russia's Nuclear Doctrine Journey: Damien Cusey and Olivier de France Chapter 14: China's NFU as a Litmus Test for GFU: Lora Saalman Chapter 15: China's No First Use Policy and the Prospect of the Global No First Use Treaty: A Chinese Perspective: Zhong Ai Chapter 16: The Desirability and Feasibility of Global No First Use: An Indian Perspective: Manpreet Sethi Chapter 17: Israel and a 'No First Use' Declaration: Emily B. Landau Chapter 18: Deterrence Unsheathed: Pakistan and the Prospects of Global No First Use: Brigadier (Retd) Feroz Hassan Khan Chapter 19: No First Use Policy of a New Nuclear Weapons State: The Case of North Korea: Jina Kim Chapter 20: Tokyo's Reluctance over NDU, For Now: Hirofumi Tosaki Chapter 21: On Turkey's Stance Towards Nuclear Weapons and Global No First Use: Mustafa Kibaroglu.