PEACE NOW – Special Issue

PEACE NOW – Special Issue

This special issue of PEACE NOW was brought out on the occasion of the National Conference on ‘Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Relevance for South Asia and the World’.
15 Years After Pokharan, Is India Diving Deeper Into The Nuclear Darkness?

15 Years After Pokharan, Is India Diving Deeper Into The Nuclear Darkness?

While the stability and security that Pokharan was supposed to bestow on India is still eluding, the country is facing the grave consequences of nuclear weaponisation: a steep rise in the military budget, ever expanding nuclear arsenal and an unsafe, uneconomic and anachronistic expansion of nuclear energy that India had to embrace as a bargain for international legitimacy for its nuclear weapons.
Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament

Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament

We have been more than disappointed by the extremely limited and halting steps taken by the nuclear-armed states to fulfill their nuclear disarmament obligations. We are deeply disturbed by the reality that every nuclear-armed state has prepared for or threatened nuclear attack during wars and international crises; by the first use nuclear attack doctrines of most nuclear-armed states; by the modernizations of nuclear weapons; and by the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Is Nuclear Power Compatible With Democracy?

When India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the U.S. last week, he reportedly carried a generous gift: an unlimited number of free lives. To be precise, Singh was ready to promise President Obama that should any of the nuclear reactors that India is planning to buy from U.S. companies ever suffer an accident, they will not have to pay anything in damages.