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…
Trump Opens the Door for a Deadlier Arms Race, and the Danger of ‘Limited’ Nuclear War
Inderjeet Parmar and Atul Bhardwaj His decision to walk away from the Open Skies Treaty is part of a pattern aimed at converting the bipolar era arms control regime into…
Nuclearization Of South Asia: Where Do We Now Stand? – OpEd
By Sher Bano* Pakistan-India relations have continued to deteriorate since the nuclear test of May 1998. Both the states have faced numerous crisis during which the nuclear weapons have played a…
Absolutely Unacceptable: Resumed Nuclear Explosive Testing
Statement of the Annual Meeting of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Resumption of nuclear explosive testing is absolutely unacceptable. Even discussing nuclear testing again is dangerously…