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Pakistan has doubled the size of its nuclear stockpile over the past several years, edging past India and now has more than 100 deployed weapons, according to a Washington Post report.
MUMBAI: In a sheer coincidence, two reactors at BARC in Trombay, which have played a key role in India's nuclear weapon programme, will celebrate their anniversaries-one golden and the other silver- on Saturday. The 40 mw Indo-Canadian Cirus reactor went critical on July 10, 1960, and the 100 mw Dhruva …
The Indian government has barred a group of nuclear scientists from meeting in New Delhi, where they planned to challenge key elements of the nation's nuclear programme, Nature has learned.
HAND-IN-HAND: U.S. President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint news conference at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday. New Delhi: The United States has become the first nuclear weapons state (NWS) as defined by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to endorse the idea of talks …
India moved swiftly to quell any misinterpretation that the Indo-Japan civilian nuclear agreement had been put on the backburner after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in answer to a question from a prominent Japanese businessman, had earlier on Monday seemed to signal that he would not push the pace for a …
This paper argues that the limit of conventional non-proliferation policy analysis is marked by the inability to come to terms with the ambivalence of nuclear power. Ambivalence is often glossed over in the literature as
In their last report before the UN Security Council votes on sanctions against Iran, international nuclear inspectors declared Monday that Iran has now produced a stockpile of nuclear fuel that experts say would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons. The report, by UN atomic watchdog IAEA, …
After two successive failures last year, the 2,000-km plus range surface-to-surface nuclear-capable missile Agni-II was on Monday test-fired successfully by Strategic Forces Command (SFC) from a site on the Orissa coast. Senior DRDO officials said the pencil-like missile was fired from Launch Complex 4 from the Wheeler
Vladimir Radyuhin Experts say that U.S. missile defences and Prompt Global Strike weapons, far from promoting nuclear disarmament, may trigger a new arms race. Hardly had Russia and the United States signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty, New START, the U.S. pushed ahead with the development of new conventional weapon …
The nuclear summit of 47 countries that was convened by the United States skirted the real issues of proliferation and disarmament of atomic weapons by the nuclear weapon states. Instead, the hyped up discourse was centred on preventing the transfer of nuclear weapons to non-state actors or
Suzanne Goldenberg The United States Navy is set to be both green and mean with the dawning of an new eco-friendly assault force that will mind its carbon footprint as it destroys its enemy. It is to launch
Even as the threat of a fourth round of UN sanction loomed large over it, Iran appeared to have partially succeeded in ending its global isolation on the nuclear issue if one were to draw any conclusion from the two-day international conference on nuclear disarmament which ended in Tehran tonight. …
Two-day event will be attended by 50 nations, including India, Russia & China Under mounting global pressure to abandon its controversial nuclear programme, Iran hosts a two-day international conference here on Saturday on nuclear disarmament in a move clearly aimed at countering the high-profile Nuclear Security Summit convened by US …
