Topic: 2025 – No First Use Policies and Nuclear Disarmament
Country: Pakistan
Delegate Name: Broderick McDonald
11/18/25
Submitted To: DISEC (GA).
From: Pakistan
Subject: NO FIRST USE POLICIES & NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
The disarmament of nuclear weapons is something that the country of Pakistan agrees should happen. Still, the country of Pakistan is not in complete agreement with unilateral disarmament, which is why Pakistan has not officially signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Unilateral disarmament is the act of one country giving up or renouncing its nuclear weapons without having the surrounding countries around it do the same. As of November 13, 2025, Pakistan has a stockpile of around 170 nuclear warheads. These warheads are not deployed on their launchers but rather kept in Pakistan’s central storage facility. The country of Pakistan also continues to produce HEU, which is Highly Enriched Uranium, while also producing plutonium for its nuclear weapons programs. While Pakistan holds nuclear weapons, they do not hold a no-first-use policy. Diplomats have claimed that if Pakistan adopted a no-first-use policy, then they would contribute enormously to international peace. Even though Pakistan would like to work towards this for global peace, Pakistan’s financial instability, geopolitical location to a long-standing enemy, and its bilateral nuclear understandings with countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey mean it should maintain nuclear armament without a no-first-use policy in an effort to remain competitive and feel secure on the global stage.
If we adopt a no-first-use policy, what will happen to poor, financially insecure countries when countries around them want to take more land, resources, and/or people that don’t belong to them? It would leave Pakistan and its people nearly defenseless against the countries that hold greater nuclear power and influence, due to their No-First-Use Policies. Should Pakistan feel the need to defend themselves against said countries, Pakistan feels that having Nuclear arms as well as being a bilateral understanding state with others, means having that sense of security without having to adopt a defensive posture that could save its country. Also, what happens once a nuclear disarmament treaty has been agreed upon? Nuclear weapons are currently defined as “designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes” (Britannica, 2025). Pakistan understands why disarming bombs such as these can promote global peace, but it worries about what kinds of weapons would replace them or could still be used. For example, the MOAB bomb (Mother Of All Bombs) is a non-nuclear weapon. This bomb is so powerful that when used, it has a yield of approximately 11 tons. A better solution to come up with, instead of nuclear disarmament, is a strengthening of nuclear security. Strengthening nuclear security means increasing support for international nuclear security programs and treaties, such as the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM).
While researching feasible solutions Pakistan can contribute to regarding no-first-use policies and nuclear disarmament, it became apparent that transparency is essential to other countries. The country of Pakistan thinks that an increase in transparency and having confidence-building measures (CBMs) on Nuclear Weapons could be both great things that help us keep our bilateral nuclear understandings. India’s no-first-use declaration (1999 Draft Nuclear Doctrine + 2003 Update) is shaping Pakistan’s NFU (No-First-Use) stance. This precedent is also why India officially declared an NFU policy in 1999, amended in 2003 to allow nuclear use in response to chemical or biological attacks. Another thing that this precedent does is cite Pakistan’s inconsistencies in India’s doctrine and conventional imbalances as reasons for why they keep rejecting NFU.
As a committee, Pakistan believes that we can collectively contribute to international peace without having to take action with a no-first-use policy and nuclear disarmament. Being able to trust your neighbors is a privilege we can all have if we don’t close off or impose bans on self-defense, but instead work towards transparency and bilateral agreements.
https://mofa.gov.pk/arms-control-and-disarmament
https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Gun-assembly-implosion-and-boosting
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/pakistan-can-contribute-to-global-peace-by-adopting-no-first-use-nuclear-policy-india-2/
