India, Nov. 26 -- Trump's Nuclear Renaissance and making "America Great Again" start a new streamlining of nuclear politics, posing an existential threat to the decades-long Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime (NNPR). The Nuclear Renaissance refers to a period of renewed interest in nuclear energy and its sister technologies, which started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plan, "Atoms for Peace", aiming to boost understanding of nuclear technology for peaceful uses and military purposes, which latterly became the bedrock of rapid global nuclearisation.

Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, major powers sought to pull the world back from the nuclear brink through landmark agreements such as the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, the SALT and...