Koodankulam (or Kudankulam, in the official lexicon) Nuclear Power Plant is anchored in an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed on 20 November 1988 between India and the then USSR. This initial agreement provided for supply and construction of two nuclear reactors on the…
Dear friends, The United Nations and its member countries should focus more on disarmament for sustainable development’ says 18 year old environmental activist and youth leader Kehkashan Basu. Ms Basu, who is originally from United Arab Emirates and now lives in Canada,…
Nor is there much solace to be found in nuclear power, which is nowhere near as environmentally benign as its proponents claim. Studies of the life-cycle of CO2 emissions of nuclear plants vary widely, since no one knows the total cost of…
Part Two (Click here to read Part One.) Whither Disarmament? In the early 1970s, the then ongoing U.S. war against Vietnam had a profound impact on all concerned human-beings across the world. In September 1972, an International NGO Conference on Disarmament was organized…
By Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director Five long years have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their excessive nuclear stockpiles by one-third below the limits set by the 2010 New Strategic…
