Peace and Disarmament

The world has certainly changed in the past decade or so. Time was when Western dignitaries visiting India were always expected to give various things to India most of which would translate into money. Not … Read moreObama lifts export controls for India: dual use has dual purpose

The Obama visit has completely wowed the Indian media. 24 hour TV channels have spent at last 12 hours on the Obama visit – the other 12 hours of course going for ads, the reason … Read moreObama Visit: New Dance Moves, Little Substance

What do you say when one of the developing world’s leading industrial and technological nations, an emerging Asian giant knocking on the doors of global power status, goes shopping for the most rudimentary of aircraft? … Read moreIndia begins trials for Basic Trainer aircraft:self-reliance in reverse gear

THE civil liability for nuclear damage bill has now gone through the standing committee of the  parliament. Though some amendments have been added, the major thrust of the bill of protecting suppliers from significant damages … Read moreThe Nuclear Liability Bill: Bowing to US Pressure

THERE are three important events that have taken place recently on the nuclear issue. One of this is the restarting of the stalled START process of cutting down of nuclear weapons by the US and … Read moreObama’s Nuclear Measures – More Atmospherics, Little Substance

Subsidising Foreign Suppliers with Indian Money THE Congress led UPA seems to have now got second thoughts on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, which they were scheduled to table in Lok Sabha on … Read moreNUCLEAR LIABILITY BILL

THE Congress-led UPA government has placed the Nuclear Liability Bill as one of 36 legislations it wants the parliament to pass this session. This is one more chapter in the sorry saga of the India … Read moreSubsidising US Suppliers: The Nuclear Liability Bill

The first new US rocket or launch vehicle since the Space Shuttle, and indeed in terms of launch technology the first new rocket from any country in the past thirty years, was launched in a … Read moreNew NASA Launch Vehicle: Rocket to Nowhere?

War Drums over Iran’s Second Nuclear Facility   THE war drums are out in Washington, with the same people beating them as did for the last Iraq war. Even the excuses are same: nuclear weapons … Read moreWar Drums over Iran’s Second Nuclear Facility

A great deal of controversy has been stirred up recently regarding the yield of Pokhran II, after K Santhanam,  the former DRDO scientist and the DRDO co-ordinator for the 1998 nuclear tests went public questioning … Read moreTesting Times for India’s Nuclear Policy

The long-held ambition of India’s strategic and political establishment to join the big boys in the global power stakes got a major fillip on July 26, 2009 when the country formally unveiled and launched its … Read moreIndian Nuclear Submarine

Depart Mr Jekyll, Enter Mr Hyde AFTER the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting last September, the government of India had mounted a high voltage campaign how it had secured a “clean and unconditional” waiver. Prime … Read moreTHE G8 BAN ON ENR TECHNOLOGIES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS