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UN talks to ban nuclear weapons: what can they achieve?

REBECCA JOHNSON, 19 April 2017 What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse to join the talks? Although most nuclear-armed…

WHY WE ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE IN ISRAEL’S PRISONS

HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.

Ending nuclear lawlessness

Zia Mian & M.V. Ramana The attempt at the UN to ban atomic weapons is based on the premise that all countries deserve equal security In the last week of…

Not just Trump: Indo-Pak tensions have also pushed the nuclear Doomsday Clock closer to midnight

If midnight is the end of the world as we know it, in 2017, the world is 2.5 minutes away from the hour. The Science and Security Board of the…

India’s Nuclear Perversion: A Fast-Breeder Reactor At Any Cost?

For all the praises it sings of breeder reactors, there is one reason for its attraction to the PFBR that the DAE does not talk much about, except indirectly. Consider this interview by the Indian Express, a national newspaper, with Anil Kakodkar, then-secretary of the DAE, about the US-India nuclear deal: “Both from the point of view of maintaining long-term energy security and for maintaining the minimum credible deterrent, the fast breeder programme just cannot be put on the civilian list.