Assessing the nuclear balance sheet
The U.S. wants a decisive say in the scripting of India’s safeguards and additional protocol agreements with the IAEA but is withholding “full” civil nuclear cooperation. 7 July 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
Arms control in a unipolar world
The new U.S. push on a fissile material cut-off treaty is an attempt to sidestep more urgent issues like weaponisation of space and the development of ‘usable’ nuclear weapons. 31 … Continue reading
Bush unveils a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty
At the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on May 18, the U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, Stephen Rademaker, sprung a surprise on the delegates. After blasting … Continue reading
An Iranian offer that America must heed
The Ahmadinejad letter is as much an invitation to dialogue as a reminder to the world of the dangers posed by the Bush administration’s policies. (The montage of the two … Continue reading
Nuclear separation plan: An update
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has tabled in Parliament additional details today on the Indian nuclear separation plan first unveiled on 7 March 2006. Specifically, he has identified the 14 reactors … Continue reading
Looking beyond the nuclear deal
The inaugural issue of TERI’s new energy newsletter, Energy Security Insights has just come out. With articles by TERI Director R.K. Pachauri, the Department of Atomic Energy’s Anil Kakodkar and … Continue reading
And now on to the NSG
As the United States and India move forward to implement their agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, one hurdle which must be crossed is the Nuclear Suppliers Group to which all … Continue reading
Key role envisaged for India in new U.S. national security strategy
Democracy promotion, pre-emption and non-proliferation are the main themes in the Bush administration’s latest national security strategy document. The renewed and even messianic emphasis on the ‘freedem agenda’ has a … Continue reading
More light on the nuclear deal
Normally, scientists and governments who want to make nuclear bombs insist that what they are really interested in is nuclear power. In India, however, we recently saw the reverse happening. … Continue reading
The new deal: When Bush comes to shove
India must treat the nuclear agreement with the United States as a standalone deal and reject the idea of any broader fusion of strategic interests. From Iran, Iraq and Palestine … Continue reading
Not All Bright
In a previous post, I had promised to analyse the report put out by David Albright and Susan Basu of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) on India’s … Continue reading
Nuclear deal: The action now shifts to Washington
Following the March 2 agreement on the separation of India’s military and civilian nuclear facilities, the United States is moving ahead with its obligation to amend domestic statutes in order … Continue reading
Nuclear separation plan seeks fine balance
Concerns of cost, research and security emphasised, but some sacrifices too . 8 March 2006The Hindu Nuclear separation plan seeks fine balance Siddharth Varadarajan CIRUS research reactor to be shut … Continue reading
Let the IAEA do its work on Iran
Involving the U.N. Security Council will escalate the nuclear crisis and reduce the scope for dialogue and negotiation. India must disassociate itself from any such move. 7 March 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
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