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Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant: Minnie Vaid Narrates the Less Heard Saga of a Huge Peaceful Mass Resistance with Women in Front

Koodankulam (or Kudankulam, in the official lexicon) Nuclear Power Plant is anchored in an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed on 20 November 1988 between India and the then USSR. This initial…

Atomic environmentalism

Nor is there much solace to be found in nuclear power, which is nowhere near as environmentally benign as its proponents claim. Studies of the life-cycle of CO2 emissions of…

Tackling the U.S. / North Korea Standoff : The Relevance of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan

Part Two (Click here to read Part One.) Whither Disarmament? In the early 1970s, the then ongoing U.S. war against Vietnam had a profound impact on all concerned human-beings across the…

Can the U.S. and Russia Avert a New Arms Race?

By Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director Five long years have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their excessive nuclear…

Tackling the U.S. / North Korea Standoff: Relevance of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan

Part One. It was three decades ago on 09 Jun, 1988 that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had submitted India’s “Action Plan for Ushering in a Nuclear Weapon Free and Non-Violent World…