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Fukushima’s Children are Dying

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.

Kathmandu Declaration: Denouncing Militarisation and Promoting Peace in South Asia

We, the people of South Asia, representing civil societies from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, converged at Kathmandu on 26-27 March 2014 for a South Asia Campaign on Demilitarisation, Democratisation and Social Justice in South Asia. The participants unanimously endorsed the theme of the campaign Denouncing Militarisation and Promoting Peace in South Asia and commit to work as peace campaigners in our social movements for the cause of peace and prosperity in South Asia.

New Campaign for a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Gains Momentum

With a follow up meeting coming in Austria, December 8th and 9th of this year, we should be strategic in pushing the impetus forward for a legal ban. We need to get even more governments to show up in Vienna, and make plans for a massive turnout of NGOs to encourage states to come out from under their shameful nuclear umbrella and to cheer on the burgeoning group of peace-seeking nations in our efforts to end the nuclear scourge!

India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Up for a Makeover?

Sukla Sen | The BJP manifesto, at any rate, makes it chillingly clear that the BJP may once again very well opt to go in for relaunching India with renewed vigour on the path of "nuclear nationalism", notwithstanding a certain degree of fogginess admittedly prevailing at the moment, with possible horrendous consequences for the billion plus inhabitants of the sub-continent, and, for that matter, the whole world unless of course forestalled by powerful resistance from within and without.

Ten Dillemas of Nuclear Deterrence

The presence of nuclear weapons between rival countries cannot guarantee the prevention of nuclear exchange or war. It is always a gamble, and it is a gamble that can always fail at some time in some place. The claim that nuclear deterrence ‘works’, at least to such an extent that you can safely rely upon it, is untenable.