Air pollution is a complex and multifaceted issue. Cleaning up our air can be a secret weapon in addressing some of society’s biggest challenges together, from public health to climate change, children’s development and sustainable economic growth. By working together, have a golden opportunity to make action on air pollution …
Is India a sleeping giant, a rising power, or a great global power? How does it compare or compete with China? Are Pakistan and Afghanistan flashpoints in Asia? Is there any solution to the China-Tibet stand-off? Does international business now decide diplomacy? Is nuclear non-proliferation still relevant? These are some …
Coral Flourishing At Bikini Atoll Atomic Test Site AUSTRALIA: April 16, 2008 CANBERRA - Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists said on Tuesday. A team of research …
Scarcity usually drives up value, but not in the nuclear-bomb business. At the height of the cold war, with tens of thousands of missiles on hair-trigger alert and the world perpetually poised for Armageddon, a stint in the nuclear chain of command was a fast track to military promotion. Now …
In utero exposure - cancer link was unknown Study confirms that ionising radiation is a weak carcinogen The study of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to provide very useful information on the effects of radiation on man. Recently, Dr Dale Preston and co-workers examined the incidence of …
India aspires for a non-violent, atomic weapons-free world and believes that the international community should conclude "universal, non-discriminatory and verifiable prohibitions on nuclear weapons' leading to their complete elimination, Vice-President Hamid Ansari said here on Sunday. Inaugurating the 18th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War …
7-POINT DISARMAMENT AGENDA: At Geneva conference, New Delhi calls for 2 multilateral pacts, 2 conventions NEW DELHI, MARCH 2: In anticipation of a Democrat-led US administration pushing for a tighter non-proliferation regime in less than a year's time, India, for the first time after declaring itself a nuclear weapon state, …
Pakistan on Wednesday test-fired the short-range, nuclear-capable Ghaznavi ballistic missile which can target northern and western Indian cities as the government vowed to "retain a strong conventional and unconventional deterrence'. A strategic missile group of the Pakistan Army conducted a successful training launch of the Ghaznavi or Hatf-III missile with …
Munich: India on Sunday said it faces threats from countries that are "authoritarian, anti-democratic and anti-secular' and voiced concern over d a n g e r s posed by nu cl e a r weapons in the hands of "volatile states', in an apparent reference to Pakistan. Highlighting South Asia's …
In the first step towards nuclear disarmament, North Korea shut down its main nuclear facility on July 14 in exchange for fuel aid. The Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Pyongan province was suspended under observation by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency after South Korea delivered part of the …
The centre's decision to set up five new nuclear power projects has caused concern among anti-nuclear activists. They say these projects will feed India's weapons programme. "India's nuclear programme has always been used as a cover for its weapons programme,' says Suren Gadekar, an anti-nuclear activist. Nuclear Power Corporation of …
Officials from India and Pakistan recently signed an agreement on "reducing the risk from accidents relating to nuclear weapons'. The pact, signed in the presence of foreign ministers Pranab Mukherjee and Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri in New Delhi, is an extension of a memorandum of understanding signed in Lahore in February …
Following a six-nation pact signed in Beijing on February 13, 2007, North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons programme in exchange for aid. North Korea has to close down its Yongbyon reactor within 60 days of the pact in exchange for 50,000 tonnes of fuel worth around us$300 million …
A new U.S. government analysis has found that the plutonium at the heart of the country's nearly 10,000 stockpiled nuclear weapons could last twice as long as previously thought. That conclusion is likely to escalate the debate over the Bush Administration's campaign to build a new generation of weapons.
Last month, the world remembered the victims of us savagery in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (atomic bombs were thrown on the two cities in August 1945), yet there was the disturbing absence of the call for global denuclearisation from the international players or from the un. The overwhelming majority of nations …
The Indo- us nuclear deal raises two critical questions. Do we need a large-scale expansion of nuclear power? Do we need to expand our arsenal of weapons of mass destruction? The answer to both is no. Any evaluation of the potential role of nuclear power should begin with the history …
the us has decided to resume producing plutonium 238, a human-made highly radioactive metal created from uranium in nuclear reactors, for "national security'. This is the first time after the end of the cold war that the country with the highest number of nuclear weapons will produce the deadly metal. …
smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Philip Morris, the world's leading tobacco manufacturer, studied the effects of smoking 30 years ago, but it did not reveal the dangers of passive smoking. powered at last: The first wind power plant of the Arabian …
