Democracy Breaks Out at the UN as 122 Nations Vote to Ban the Bomb
We are witnessing a striking shift in the global paradigm of how the world views nuclear weapons. By Alice Slater On July 7, 2017, at a UN Conference mandated by…
A rebuttal to critics of the nuclear weapon ban treaty
EXPERT COMMENTARY 24 JULY 2017 Nick RitchieSenior Lecturer in international securityDepartment of Politics, University of York In their Bulletin article of July 16, Scott Sagan and Benjamin Valentino critique the…
AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY : FANTASIZING ABOUT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
by N.D.Jayaprakash “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!” If wishful thinking was all that mattered, the poor could have wished away poverty by merely passing a resolution…
Jaitapur nuclear power plant: French firm EDF makes fresh proposal to NPCIL
EDF proposes to take care of engineering and a large share of procurement and wants the Nuclear Power Corporation of India to take care of construction. A French firm, which…
After the nuclear weapons ban treaty: A new disarmament politics
Zia Mian A treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted by an overwhelming vote and met with loud cheers this week at the United Nations. More than 70…