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Blinded by the Bomb

Against all civilisational values, Islamabad and New Delhi proceed to prepare their bombs and missiles – for nuclear war to be fought on our soil.

By Zia Mian

/ 1 Nov 2005

Abdul Qadeer Khan, regarded as the 'Father of Pakistan's A-Bomb', was accused then pardoned by President Musharraf for his role in trafficking nuclear technology. But what sort of man is Qadeer, and what does his story reveal about the United States' role in Pakistan's nuclear proliferation?

By Pervez Hoodbhoy

/ 15 Mar 2004

The N-word

2002 ended much like it began, with talk of war, possibly war involving nuclear weapons, hanging over the Subcontinent like a thick, blinding fog. Addressing an air force veterans rally

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2003

In the Wake of the Tests

Out of the Nuclear Shadow Edited by Smitu Kothan and Zia Mian Palgrave Press, 2002 ISBN 1 84277 058 6

By Kanti Bajpai

/ 1 Feb 2002

Eye in the Sky

India, Pakistan and Nuclear Confidence A water vapour plume from a cooling tower vent at Khushab and the discharge of hot water at Trombay prove that Pakistan and India are

By Hui Zhang

/ 1 Feb 2001

Nuclear tailspin

When it comes to matters of mass life and mass death, it is best to think in simple, even simplistic, terms. And so it is when flagging the urgency for

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 2000

Whose nationalism?

The Kargil mess may well lead to the use of Great Power influence in South Asia, something which New Delhi has resisted for decades For a military engagement which New

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 Jul 1999

The Southern Cone and the subcontinent

Argentina and Brazil agreed to mutual nuclear renunciation, and turned their rivalry into cooperation. Could India and Pakistan do the same? It is a year since India and Pakistan hook

By Varun Sahni

/ 1 May 1999

VOTE OF OVERCONFIDENCE

The Collapse of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government barely 13 months after coming to power has sent an unambiguous message to India's politicians: ultranationalism, hawkishness on matters of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 May 1999

Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing

On the psychopathology of the nuclear-arms race.

By Ashis Nandy

/ 1 Jul 1998

Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing

When mountains die they turn white

I saw on television a picture more awesome than the familiar mushroom cloud of nuclear explosion. The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by

By Eqbal Ahmad

/ 1 Jul 1998

The shatterer of worlds

THE HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI, 14 MAY 1998 India's bomb tests are morally shameful and politically foolish. Any act which legitimises or promotes the production or deployment of

By Achin Vanaik

/ 1 Jul 1998