No First Use definition
No First Use means that state won’t use nuclear weapon capability during a conflict and will relay on its conventional capabilities during a conflict. India’s current developments: Ballistic Missile
No First Use nuclear posture means that nuclear weapons will only be deployed in response for a nuclear strike on Indian territory or Indian forces elsewhere;
No First Use means not using nuclear weapons at all unless the other side has used them first. Russia for many years maintained a declaratory “no-first-use” policy (generally disbelieved in the U.S. and later admitted by some Russians to be meaningless). With the decline of Russian conventional military power, Russia retracted its “no-first-use” declaration and adopted a policy more like that of the U.S. This change puts the shoe on the other foot: the
More Definitions of No First Use
No First Use means not to use nuclear weapons first, whereas “second use” means to use nuclear weapons after another country has used nuclear weapons first. The main argument for “no first use” concerns how to respond to an attack by chemical, biological, or conventional weapons. If a nation adopts a no first use policy, it vows not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear attack, and use them only against nuclear attacks. Usually, a no first use policy is expressed as a declaratory policy of a state.