Peace and Disarmament
IT is a matter of great significance that not only has the parliament discussed the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, it has also drawn the line of what is acceptable to the country and what is not … Read moreThe Indo-US Nuclear Deal: The PM’s Rajya Sabha Statement
AFTER silence for more than a month on the two Bills drafted by the Senate and the House of Representatives Committees on the India US nuclear agreement, Manmohan Singh has finally been forced to respond … Read moreThe Two Drafts Of The Nuclear Deal: Shackling India Hand and Foot
THE Iran issue is now reaching a flash point with a number of reports coming out of the Bush administration of a military strike and even a possible nuclear “bunker” bomb to “destroy” Iran’s nuclear … Read moreRe-Configuring The NPT: The Iran Issue
THE Iran issue is now reaching a flash point with a number of reports coming out of the Bush administration of a military strike and even a possible nuclear “bunker” bomb to “destroy” Iran’s nuclear … Read moreRe-Configuring The NPT: The Iran Issue
US president George W Bush released the latest US National Security Strategy in Washington on March 17, 2006. The NSS is the definitive US strategic policy document which, by law, is supposed to be announced … Read moreUS National Security Strategy 2006
THE decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (pronounced kle-mon-so), once the pride of the French Navy and having seen action in first Gulf War in 1991, left France on the last day of 2005 on her … Read moreFOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE… Toxic ship Heads For India
IN the first part of the article (People’s Democracy, November 7-13, 2005) we had shown that nuclear power would meet only a small part (4 per cent) of our overall power requirement. We had also … Read moreEnergy Security,Energy Policy and Nuclear Energy- II
ONE of the justifications given for India’s Iran vote in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was that India’s future energy interests demand a decisive shift to nuclear energy and the US support in removing the … Read moreEnergy Security, Energy Policy And Nuclear Energy
A HIGH-LEVEL US delegation led by Lt Gen Jeffrey Kohler, head of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency responsible for inter-governmental arms deals, visited New Delhi last week and made a top-security presentation to Indian … Read moreUS Triggers Arms Race In South Asia
THE Nuclear deal entered into by India and the US as part of the Indo-US Agreement signed by president Bush and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh during the latter’s recent visit to the US has … Read moreIndo-US Nuclear Deal
NOT unexpectedly, the Non Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) month long (from May 2 to May 27) five-yearly Review Conference failed after the US spent the entire period either arguing about procedure or demanding that disarmament … Read moreFAILURE OF NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE: Global Disarmament Groups Slam US
DEFENCE and strategic analysts around the world have been taken by surprise by the news, in the air for quite some time but formally revealed during the recent visit to India by US secretary of … Read moreNo To US F-16s For India By Raghu