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Watch: Setsuko Thurlow, survivor of nuclear bombing of Hiroshima speaking at the UN

Setsuko Thurlow, the octagenarian survivor of Hiroshima bombing, in her evocative speech in the UNGA this week during negotiations on the nuclear ban treaty, gave a fervent call for banning nuclear weapons while her generation of victims fade away.

Not just Trump: Indo-Pak tensions have also pushed the nuclear Doomsday Clock closer to midnight

If midnight is the end of the world as we know it, in 2017, the world is 2.5 minutes away from the hour. The Science and Security Board of the…

UN General Assembly approves historic resolution to negotiate nuclear ban treaty

The United Nations General Assembly today approved a historic resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. The vote follows a decision on 27 October by the General Assembly’s First Committee – which deals with disarmament and international security matters – to begin work on the new treaty despite fervent opposition from some nuclear-armed nations.

India’s Nuclear Perversion: A Fast-Breeder Reactor At Any Cost?

For all the praises it sings of breeder reactors, there is one reason for its attraction to the PFBR that the DAE does not talk much about, except indirectly. Consider this interview by the Indian Express, a national newspaper, with Anil Kakodkar, then-secretary of the DAE, about the US-India nuclear deal: “Both from the point of view of maintaining long-term energy security and for maintaining the minimum credible deterrent, the fast breeder programme just cannot be put on the civilian list.

Parrikar’s Nuclear Misadventure on NFU is Condemnable: CNDP Statement

The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) condemns in no uncertain terms the highly irresponsible and mindless utterances of the Union Defense Minister, Mr.Manohar Parrikar, who has questioned India’s No First Use (NFU) policy regarding nuclear weapons at a book release function on Wednesday.