Abstract
The imperial nature of the US has always been dominant in all spheres of influence. To continue with this trend, it has adopted a policy similar to imperialism in the nuclear domain. The term ‘Nuclear Imperialism’ is a new addition in the security discourse that is defined as the domination and control extended and imposed by the US over the global nuclear regime. States are divided into the nuclear core, periphery, and semi-periphery. The US is placed in the nuclear core, while India and Israel are the nuclear semi-peripheries having close ties with the nuclear core. The nuclear core is continuously exploiting the nuclear periphery states, such as Pakistan and Iran by imposing its decision to abandon their nuclear programs and disarm unilaterally. The strategies opted for maintaining nuclear imperialism are the non-proliferation regimes, extended nuclear deterrence, and threat reduction program to keep its inspections on other states that possess nuclear weapons. This tendency of US nuclear imperialism has been explained by employing the Structural Theory of Imperialism by Johan Galtung.