The Doomsday Clock
In 1947 members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) developed the symbolic Doomsday Clock after the horrific US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — which remain the greatest…
Al-Quds and the Muslim world: Part – I
We have come to expect anything from President Trump, as we did from President Bush. The latter showed his character by attacking Iraq (together with PM Blair) on flimsy grounds,…
Doomsday clock
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock. In so doing they moved the symbolic minute hand ahead thirty seconds to two and one-half minutes till midnight.…
Looking for wimps
IN a recent experiment at Harvard University, scientists have discovered a technique that not just slows down the ageing process, but reverses it. OK, the experiment was conducted on mice,…
Drones emerge from shadows to become key cog in US war machine
When the US drones obliterated a car carrying Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour last month, it was the kind of targeted killing that unmanned aircraft are best known for. But…
The 28th May tests
Here follows the remainder of Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s letter to Zahid Malik: “Some foreign countries, with a resolute agenda for establishing a non-proliferation regime globally, took serious note of this…
The nuclear summit
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi will attend a two-day Nuclear Security Summit being held in Washington D C at the end of this…
Nuclear security and the IAEA
“No system of safeguards that can be devised will of itself provide an effective guarantee against production of atomic weapons by a nation bent on aggression.” – Harry S Truman…
The Marshall Islands’ battle
On March 1, 1954 the United States of America conducted a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, codenamed Castle Bravo, yielded an incredible 15-megatonnes…
Korean conundrum
NORTH Korea’s latest nuclear test last week was greeted with a predictable mixture of scepticism and consternation. The seemingly contradictory responses often emanated from the same sources. On the one…
