Nuclear war
On April 11, Donald Trump, irked by North Korea’s continued tests of nuclear weapons and missiles, tweeted that “North Korea is looking for trouble’. If China does not ‘help’, then…
Nuclear warfare
The accession of Donald Trump to the US presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge…
Nuclear wars
The week before, Trump’s people requested the names of all department officials who worked on the Paris climate change accords. (The Energy Department refused; the transition team later said its…
A nuclear warning from India
In a wide-ranging speech on India’s nuclear weapons’ programme and the country’s nuclear doctrine, Shyam Saran, chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board, declared in New Delhi on April 24…
UAE nuclear programme edges toward 2018 launch
At first glance, the long hallway seems abandoned. But behind glass walls, in soundproof offices, engineers and physicists are putting the final touches to the Arab world's first nuclear programme.…
Forget a war, nuclear bombs can’t win a fair election
Indira Gandhi conducted India’s first nuclear test in 1974, which she euphemistically called a peaceful nuclear device. If it won her plaudits from fawning Indians it wasn’t evident. By 1975…
Towards a nuclear police state?
Is the Manmohan Singh government doing to the anti-Koodankulam nuclear plant protesters what the Bush administration did to Iraq under Saddam Hussein – to invent an excuse for using military…
War crimes
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and just lynch those responsible, their crimes being so…
The nuclear threat
There is visible nervousness. Events of the last three weeks are indicating gradual penetration of disappointment, lassitude and desperation in Putin’s camp. Indubitably, Putin is worried about the repeated failures…
The horror of war [Part IV]
In this concluding part of this series, I would like to discuss how wars, conflicts, civil strife, armament, nuclearization and weapons tests have affected the environment and what potential they…
