By Kumar Sundaram|December 31, 2018 https://www.wagingpeace.org/indias-immodest-nuclear-quest/#.XC-xV-XXXnM.twitter The passing year marked the 20th year of the May 1998 nuclear tests in Pokhran, the 10th year of the unprecedented exception from the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) that the Indian government achieved in 2008, and…
Suvrat Raju & M.V. Ramana Unless the government is transparent about details, it will be engulfed in yet another controversy In December, the French company Électricité de France (EDF) submitted a “techno-commercial proposal” to the Indian government for the Jaitapur nuclear power project in…
Nagercoil,December 22, 2018. Dear friend: [Our big and beautiful Planet Earth that can be likened to an airplane with limited resources has been literally hijacked by the nuclear state terrorists. I, for one, tend to think and feel that nuclearism is the…
Although a widespread movement has developed to fight climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of nuclear disaster — yet. By Lawrence S. Wittner, December 7, 2018. In late November 2018, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned public intellectual, remarked that “humanity…
Last month, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) put out a reportentitled The Nuclear Power Dilemma: Declining Profits, Plant Closures, and the Threat of Rising Carbon Emissions that calls for offering subsidies to unprofitable nuclear power plants. Not surprisingly, it has been widely welcomed by nuclear advocates,…
By Walter C. Clemens, November 28, 2018 President Donald Trump wants to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. But can he do so without Congressional approval? At first…
