Germany Gets Both: No Nuclear, Less CO2
July 2020M.V. Ramana and Solène Delumeau This May, a 1,100 megawatt coal-fired power plant was commissioned in Germany. On Twitter, in the thread started by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager…
A Green New Deal Should Not Include Nuclear Energy
M. V. Ramana and Schyler Edmundson Over the last few years, there has been a growing interest in a Green New Deal (GND), and there are many versions proposed in…
No market for Australian uranium in India
Author: M V Ramana and Cassandra Jeffery, UBC In 2011, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) voted to overturn a ban on uranium sales to India. The Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Australia…
Nuclear modernisation: The emerging threat to global peace
B Sivaraman The end of the Cold War three decades back has not ended nuclear build-up in the world. Nuclear weapon states are modernising their existing air-, sea- and land-based…
Nuclear weapon modernization continues but the outlook for arms control is bleak: New SIPRI Yearbook out now
(Stockholm, 15 June 2020) The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) today launches the findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2020, which assesses the current state of armaments, disarmament and international security. A…