CSE is ranked as the no 1 think tank on environment policy in the global south according to latest edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania. The report ranks CSE among the top 16 environment think tanks globally. As accelerating advances …
Chief designers of the Pokhran II tests have maintained that the total yield of the five nuclear tests on 11 and 13 May is around 58 kilo-ton and refuted the doubts raised by a group of Western scientists about the Indian Hydrogen bomb. Top nuclear scientists, including Atomic Energy Commission …
A commission appointed by Congress has concluded that North Korea, Iran and other countries are concealing their ballistic missile programs from U.S. spy satellites by using enormous underground laboratories and factories to build and test the weapons. The underground construction is one factor contributing to what the comission described as …
Ground-based radio telescopes have been able to detect the new Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and have found it rotating slowly near its original position in space, a potentially important step toward possible recovery of direct communications with the spacecraft. Radio contact with SOHO, a joint mission of the …
Japanese chemical weapons from the World War II can still sicken and kill people in northern China. The dumping was part of a campaign to erase evidence of Japan's chemical war against China.
North Korea is refusing to allow international inspectors full access to its nuclear sites, raising concern that it will be impossible to determine if Pyongyang has hidden away enough plutonium to build nuclear weapons, congressional investigators said in a report.
Remember those nuclear tests in May? By analyzing seismic data recorded around the world, scientists have measured the intensity of the blasts. Their conclusion: both India and Pakistan have exaggerated the size of their weapons, and at least one test never even took place. US government sources confirm the findings.
The Japanese government is accelerating its effort to dispose of about 700,000 chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of the World War II. The government plans to decide by the end of September which technologies and plans to adopt.
Talks on anti-cheating provisions for an international pact banning biological weapons will not be completed by the end of this year, the target date set by the US and the European Union.
The government has been asked to go ahead with the development of the full range of missiles in addition to variants of Agni currently under development. The Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence, in its first report released today, has said: "Government should go ahead full steam in a time-bound manner …
Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Iftikhar Chaudhra Khan, who fled to the USA to seek political asylum, has said that Pakistan has deployed nuclear weapons along its border with India and its warheads are ready.
Britain's ban on land mines will become total with the elimination of an "exemption for exceptional circumstances," the government said on Friday. On July 10, under pressure to show support for Princess Diana's final campaign against land mines before the anniversary of her death August 31, the House of Commons …
The world's atomic watchdog said that although France's nuclear testing in the South Pacific had posed no health risks, this conclusion should not be considered a carte blanche for further tests. The International Atomic Agency, in a report on the current and future effects of the tests in French Polynesia …
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics director Bikash Sinha today said a section of the International scientific community was trying to belittle India's success in conducting nuclear tests at Pokhran. Addressing a gathering of the Ladies Study Group at Rotary Sadan this afternaoon, Sinha said the recent episode of a bunch …
Defector scientists : Pakistan military commanders have discussed pre-emptive nuclear strikes against India and have drawn up a list of cities and military installations to be targeted, according to a senior Pakistani weapons scientists, who has defected.
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) R Chidambaram said at Mumbai on Saturday that India exported 100 tonnes of heavy water to South Korea recently for $20 million .
It appeared to be a harmless lump of sugar, albeit a lump of sugar dating from World War I. But when scientists examined it, they found living anthrax spores, apparently placed there 80 years ago by a Germany intent on disrupting the Allies horse and reindeer drawn supply lines across …
While the United States has condemned India for conducting nuclear tests, a new book has estimated that Washington has spent over 5.5 pound trillion on its own nuclar arsenal. The study, titled "Atomic audit: The costs and consequences of US nuclear weapons sine 1940," said the cumulative cost of USZ …
The World Bank could resume lending to India this week despite sancitons imposed after the country joined the nuclear club, monetary sources have said. They said the bank's board was tentatively scheduled to consider a large humanitarian loan for Andhra pradesh on Thursday . They would not say how much …
United Nations weapons inspectors have uncovered evidence that Iraq put deadly VX nerve gas into missile warheads before the 1991 Gulf War, contradicting claims by the Iraqi government that it was unable to make a weapon using the volatile nerve agent, according to official documents and diplomatic sources.
It is a shocking tale-if true. In September 1970, as the Vietnam War raged on, a team of 16 commandos was sent to Laos on a secret mission. They were ordered to find and kill U.S. defectors, fellow soldiers who had gone over to the communists. U.S. warplanes dropped bombs …
