A world without nukes
At long last, the advocates of nuclear disarmament have a reason to be optimistic about their journey towards achieving the goals of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The 2017 Nobel…
A false analogy
The recent thaw between Seoul and Pyongyang has rekindled hopes for an Islamabad-New Delhi detente. If South Korea and North Korea, which have for decades remained at each other’s throats,…
A strategic alliance
The strategic ties between India and the US are on the rise and are likely to have implications for Pakistan’s security and strategic interests. Shunning its non-aligned pretensions, New Delhi…
Another push for the CTBT
Over the past two decades, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has emerged as one of the top-tier international organisations with an impressive record of achievements. The International Monitoring…
Nuclear mainstreaming
The Western academic community agrees that, had India not detonated its nuclear devices, it would have been almost impossible for Pakistan to go nuclear. This week, on May 28, 2018,…
Road to disarmament
"Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security” – Ban Ki-moon Nuclear weapons are regarded as the most inhumane of all weapons…
Moving forward on the CTBT
This year marks the 18th anniversary of the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by the US Senate in October 1999. During these 18 years, repeated efforts have…
Setting the rules of engagement
Henry Kissinger once remarked that: “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”. Though most American political and economic institutions stress on liberal democratic values, Washington has continued to…
Doomsday panic
When Daniel Ellsberg visited Los Angeles in mid-December, promoting his important new book The Doomsday Machine, his central message was that the threat of nuclear holocaust was more looming than…
Living with a nuclear North Korea
The global community has spent almost three decades trying to prevent the Kim regime in North Korea from moving its fingers towards the nuclear button, but it has failed to…
