The Red Cross adopts a 4-year action plan towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons

The Red Cross adopts a 4-year action plan towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons

The global Red Cross and Red Crescent movement today reiterated its deep concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and adopted a four-year action plan towards ensuring that nuclear weapons are never used again. The world's largest humanitarian organisation reiterated its objective to prohibit the use of and completely eliminate nuclear weapons. The resolution was adopted unanimously at the Council of Delegates meeting in Sydney, the highest governing body of the movement.
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.

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.

A Deadly Route

Friday the 26th of July was a red-letter day for many of us. It was the day of the release of the Indian People's Charter on Nuclear Energy. A clarion call from all of us (and I hope some of you) who truly believe that nuclear power is a deadly route for India to take.